What Makes a " Good Doctor " : Patients ' Viewpoint

As I teach first and second year medical students. Is there one quality in the performance of being a physician that I should stress to the students is the most important in being a good doctor? I mean, one quality which sets the definition of a good doctor. In answering my question, I look to the perspective of the patient interacting with their physician and what the patient is really looking for to give the doctor the title " good " .. However, which would also be most interesting would be to read opinions of those visitors to my blog who are or were patients themselves who have interacted with doctors as to what single quality they are looking for which makes that doctor " good " and should be part of the education of my medical students to attain. What should I teach them?..Maurice.. 
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