Why is being a patient a difficult pill to swallow?

While being treated for an aggressive hematologic cancer, the former head of a department of medicine at a large teaching hospital told me he wished he could hang a sign on his headboard, reading P-I-P: Previously-Important-Person. Despite extraordinary achievements, skills, credentials, and status, being a patient made him feel like an amalgam of parts; limbs, Read more… Why is being a patient a difficult pill to swallow? originally appeared in KevinMD.com.
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