title: Expert patients: learning from HIV.
abstract: The outbreak of HIV in the early 1980s saw widespread activism among patients and community supporters. The author, a young physician in San Francisco at the time, describes how coming of age as a clinician in the midst of this activism affected her concept of the patient-physician relationship. The insistence of a particular patient, Robert, on specifying his treatment goals illustrates that even people with substantial cognitive challenges can participate in their own care in an egalitarian and active manner.
authors: UCSF, Box 0563 LR-102, San Francisco, CA 94143-0563, USA. mcooke@medicine.ucsf.edu
authors: Molly
authors: M
authors: Cooke
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000739:Anecdotes as Topic; D015658:HIV Infections; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010358:Patient Participation; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D014481:United States