excellent health care. This category encompassed verbal communication of the provider with the patient; where the provider listens, gives information, and includes the patient in the health care process (Anderson et al., 2007). Because most individuals put a lot of trust on their physician, especially one they might frequent often for check-ups and referrals such as a primary care physician like the confederate used in our study, these individuals would like to have a positive relationship with such physician. What this means is that the quality of the patient-physician relationship can ultimately affect the patient’s emotional/behavioral responses as well as medical outcomes that have to do with compliance and recovery; this all being affected
