title: Meeting the person, not just the illness--this is who I am.
abstract: ABSTRACT The importance of developing a therapeutic relationship by meeting advanced disease patients where they are in the trajectory of their illness is described with a case and commentary.
authors.affiliation: Marymount Hospice and Consultant Physician in Palliative Medicine at Cork University Hospital, Cork, Ireland. ony.OBrien1@hse.ie
authors.forename: Tony
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: O'Brien
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D002830:Choroid Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy; D004645:Empathy; D005134:Eye Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008545:Melanoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000628:therapy; D010166:Palliative Care / Q000379:methods*; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations