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Identifying the Problem: Patient Perspective (continued)
- "We were raised to do what the doctor says; we don't want to offend by questioning them."
- "Doctors need to learn how we think. We are speaking different languages."
- "I am not as compulsive about my own care as I was of my husband's."
- "I don't keep a medication list; my doctor knows what I take."
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