Yes, you are my doctor. [He'd honestly expected no less than that, and it clearly doesn't actually bother him. Healer's prerogative.] But is it not so a patient may have say in the terms and times of her treatment?

[Just as Nehan says, in fact. Illarion sits back up, turning a thoughtful look on the erune.]

You do not believe anyone could want to help you for your own sake? Or that this thing, it is general--all offers of help are made to bind others in obligation?

[A very large difference between those two attitudes, even if they had similar outcomes on the surface.]