The Doctor-Patient Relationship

The Doctor-Patient Relationship has been and remains a keystone of care: the medium  in which data are gathered, diagnoses and plans are made compliance is accomplished, and healing, patient activation, and support are provided.
A robust science of the doctor-patient encounter and relationship can guide decision making in health care plans we know much about the average doctor's skill and knowledge in this area, and how to teach doctors to relate more effectively and efficiently.
In addition Doctor-Patient Relationship is remarkable for its centrality during life-altering and meaningful times in person's lives, times of birth, death, severe illness, and healing. Thus providing health care, and being  a doctor, is a moral enterprise. An incompetent doctor is judged not merely to be a poor businessperson, but also morally blameworthy, as having not lived up to expectations of patients, and having violated trust that is an essential and moral feature of the Doctor-patient Relationship.