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Primum Non-Nocere. First do no harm. This is the first rule of medicine, reminding us of our duty to protect our patients and to ensure that our procedures and treatments never worsen a patient’s condition. But what if the healthcare provider is at risk of harm from the patient? May a licensed healthcare provider refuse to treat a patient? A patient, say, with Ebola? The recent emergence of Ebo...

The quality of the "patient-carer" relationship is the foundation of self-management support and has been shown to influence treatment outcome in relation to psychological and somatic illness, including diabetes. It has long been accepted within applied psychology that the quality of the client-therapist relationship--termed the working alliance--is of central importance to treatment outcome an...