Dr. Vince Leone says doctors must project authority and professionalism everywhere, not just in the clinic. If you lose the leadership role in the doctor-patient relationship, dominant patients will try to take control of their own care.
But the one about, are you the doctor, doctor? The thing that stuck most with me about that was you play the part of the doctor, not just in the office, but when you're in public as well. Hmm. In other words, you don't act like a goofball, a clown, whatever you want to say, when you're out of the office. When you're in your community, you still act the part of the doctor. In other words, you you display professionalism at all times, and your conduct and your character and all those so that nobody can point at you and say, "Huh." So that that was some of the things he so maintaining the image of the doctor is there in a doctor patient relationship. There has to be an alpha and a beta, and you never give up the role as the doctor of the alpha and let the patient. Dictate and control basically how things are going to go.
It's it's because when someone goes to a doctor or goes to any professional, they they're going to them because they want to be told what to do, right? You need to be leading the relationship because that's what they're there for. If they get a sense that you're not fulfilling that role, that's when they start to try to take over, especially if they're a domineering type.
