Simple were the days when the doctor had the time to not only call you their patient but when you left the clinic you left as their friend. With that said, it’s more important than ever that you learn to self-manage care and to not lose those tender relationships and continue the excellent individualized care that your provider wants to give. And this can be achieved just by taking the traditional patient-centered care model and incorporating it into relationship-centered care to take care of health as a family care team.