The patient as person: an update

I live with a chronic, incurable disease called rheumatoid arthritis (RA). According to my healthcare system, this makes me a patient. But I can tell you I consider myself a lot of other things before I introduce myself to anyone as a patient or as a person who lives with RA. In fact those words (patient, person living with RA) are the ones I choose only when I’m in the healthcare system or when I’m part of some type of project that includes a...