LiveScience.com - Top 7 Things Patients Expect from Doctors

Ironically "competent" or better yet, "excellent" do not make the list, which for most of the planet's inhabitants would supersede all other concerns!
LiveScience.com - Top 7 Things Patients Expect from Doctors: "Based on the new study, which surveyed 192 patients, the authors concluded that a model physician should be ...

* Confident
* empathetically
* Humane
* Personal
* Forthright
* Respectful
* Thorough"