A good conversation is important for the recovery. How rarely, however, has experienced our author. A plea for more time in medicine.

By Julia Roth Haas

a woman to the doctor and asks a question to which drug to take. The doctor rolls his eyes, snorts through the nose and pushes you out of the room with the sentence: “The empowered Patient, that’s really the biggest joke of all time!” Unfortunately, this Moment was not funny; what sounds like a joke, was none. And my question is? Remained unanswered.

About the communication between doctor and Patient, and what can go wrong along the way, is a lot of …