This seminar course will focus on the many roles of the doctor and patient in modern health care. The goal of this course is to help students consider the kind of physician they want to become and the kind of doctor-patient relationships they want to develop. Two central questions examined throughout the course are whether doctors can still practice personal medicine in an increasingly bureaucratic system of care and whether the doctor-patient relationship will survive in the face of modern challenges including health reform, the cost of care, and time constraints.