complains about everything from the food to won t let his blood get drawn and the specialist told me, you know, i the primary care doctor couldn t get a handle on that patient and basically make him nicer then he s going to have to sign off the case. well, that afternoon i go in the hospital. i sit on the patient s bed and larry was telling me.@@@@@@@@ ng defiant. he wanted somebody he could talk to and be comfortable with. and that was very important when our patients trust us. and that trust is so, so important. and that all of us who are physicians will understand that that trust is the thing that bonds us. and other clinicians as well. we re truly a blessed profession. there s no other profession like ours. the look on a mother s face when you tell her her baby s going to be okay, whether her baby is 3 or 33. that look on the mother s face is the same. and our patients truly, truly trust us. a young woman who s being physically abused will tell her doctor or her nurse or