People do sometimes need to be patients | Letters

As patients, especially as in-patients, we are obliged to regress – to accept the authority of doctors and nurses, and invasions into our privacyRe Ann Robinson’s article “I’m a person not a patient” (12 May), as a former GP and psychiatrist (aged 92) who has frequently been a patient, I cannot agree with her. Of course, patients are persons, but the role of patient does entail a degree of “morphing”.As patients, especially as in-patients, we are ob