The patient from hell explains that older patients are used to personalised treatment and want continuity in their care published 609 am published 609 am. Some patients are just plain difficult and many physicians have at least one patient if not more whom they really dislike heres how to cope with these challenging patients. Patients from hell is a collection of true stories of difficult encounters with patients and their diseases it presents situations from these encounters that provoke a broad range of human emotions from humorous to sad situations to situations that can and likely will provoke anger f