title: The Case for Making Health Care Advocacy a Discipline of Medicine; The Paradigm of a Vascular Patient.
authors: Section of Vascular and Endovascular Surgery, Lebanese American University , Beirut , Lebanon.
authors: Elias J
authors: EJ
authors: Arbid
authors: Division of Vascular Surgery, Primacare Center for Vascular Diseases , Fall River, MA , USA.
authors: Ibrahim G
authors: IG
authors: Eid
keywords: health advocacy; patient centered care; physicians health advocates; turf battles; vascular surgery