Respect
To respect is to see again or afresh, to look back wanting to see more clearly. The same root verb (L., specere) is evident in words such as speculate, inspect, spectacles, and speculum. To respect someone is to be attentive, subjective, freeing, reciprocal, gentle, engaged, holistic, patient, modest, trusting, graceful, reconciling, humanizing. But physicians must be scientific, objective, detached. Therein lies the ethical complexity of patient encounters.