title: Clinician as patient: the gift of illness.
abstract: Most individuals have been touched by illness or have experienced illness themselves. This commentary illustrates how, as a clinician, my own life-threatening illness has informed the way I work within integrated care and general health care practice.
authors.affiliation: St. Mary's Family Medicine Residency.
authors.forename: Laura
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Sudano
mesh_terms: D003657:Decision Making; D004696:Endocarditis / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D010822:Physicians, Women / Q000523:psychology*; D011320:Primary Health Care