The Role of Patient in Patient Management

It is a common belief now that managing a case without team work is next to impossible. Each and every member of the team has a pre-defined role based on the case and its necessities. the patients and his/her family are documented quite frequently as the corner stones of the team. Now the question remains to be answered: what is the exact definition of a patient. In other words, who is the patient? Merely a subject involved by the disease