Why isn’t there a “Bedside Manners for Doctors 101” in medical school? or a “Mind Your Medical Practice Manners with Patients”. Isn’t the innate desire to be of service and help people be healthy what motivates physicians to pursue medicine in the first place?

Patients are just people asking for doctors’ help to be healthy. Doctors are just people with medical training helping other people get healthy and stay healthy. Medicine is a service profession that helps optimize and preserve life. The most compassionate doctors I’ve known practice the art of being of service to humanity, and always put the person (the patient) first.