Dear Anita,

Yes, but that doesn’t diminish at all the grueling nature of such a task – the task to recover.

My last patient, we had some difficulty with blood work.  I said to him before the procedure, I am sorry you had to go through that.  He states:

Well, everything you are doing here is to help me, right?

I said, yes, right…

He replies: well then why would I be nothing but cooperative, you are doing your best to help me…

So simple, but incredible – something we never hear – perhaps in the medical world, or even the real world anymore.

It is exactly right – if someone is trying there absolute best, why should we be uncooperative and attempt to put them down – how senseless!

Yet it happens every single day