title: How to cope with the manipulative patient. An opinion.
abstract: Doubtless there are those who would dismiss this essay in the belief that it has no application to them. Doctors pride themselves on their professional manipulative skills but might deny the existence of similar skills in patients.
mesh_terms: D000437:Alcoholism / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D008306:Malingering / Q000175:diagnosis; D010349:Patient Compliance; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D013001:Somatoform Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis; D014167:Transference, Psychology