[I]t’s simpler to change behavior than attitudes,” Kahn writes. In other words, we won’t get all doctors to respect their patients, but maybe we can get them to act like they do.

 A little bit of etiquette can go a very long way to allay fears and make a hospital stay a tad more "comfortable." Our patients are the ones who are "suffering",---our misery with the state of the healtcare system or our local politics, etc should not affect how we relate to our patients.  They deserve a caring, polite and respectful professional to greet them every day.