doctor-patient relation

1. 1.

   the responsibility of a physician to act in the best interests of the patient

   Broadermedical relation

Questions about doctor-patient relation

What does doctor-patient relation mean?

doctor-patient relation means "the responsibility of a physician to act in the best interests of the patient".

Is doctor-patient relation a common word?

doctor-patient relation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.