“Robert, I’m writing to thank you for the very gentle very soothing way you told me about that lesion you ‘saw’ with that third eye of yours.
I appreciate the fact that you said you might well be wrong and that even if you were right this was ‘out of your bailiwick’ as you put it, something I might want to ask my doctor about. I also appreciated the fact that you didn’t insist that I see her, that you left the choice to me. (I went by the way and it did show up. I was frightened, to put it mildly, but to make a long story short it turned out to be benign.)
                                         I’m also writing to thank
you for respecting my boundaries, both physical and emotional. But above all I decided to write because of the way you listened, without judgment, to my emotional concerns, for the way you empathized without trying to ‘fix’ me.”
                                            - Linda L.
  Olympia, Washington