ABSTRACT
With my recently renovated retrospectoscope, I wonder why patients are so difficult? There are several reasons that come to mind; they are human beings, they are all different, they don't really trust doctors as much as they pretend to, they don't really hear too well and they usually don't do what the professionals want them to. After 5,000 years it is the doctor's role that has changed. No longer the mystical keepers of occult information, the job is now to interpret health information more than give it. The task is to help our patients understand, and to allow them to make valid choices about their own healthcare.
