I know of one occasion when one of my Ts treated me differently from the rest of her patients. Her mother became abruptly ill and my T had to leave unexpectedly for several weeks. She told me that she didn’t tell the rest of her pts why she was leaving, but because she knew it would be so hard on me to have her gone (and, I suspect, because I am a physician who worked at he same institution as she did). I felt special then, especially since she thanked me for responding so compassionately to her when she called me crying to tell me she had to leave for a while.