Here is a new idea: the first volume on the patient's perspective in ancient medicine. In 1990 the American Medical Association released its first statement on patients' agency, with an allusion to Hippocrates Aphorisms 1.1: "From ancient times, physicians have recognized that the health and well-being of patients depends upon a collaborative effort between physician and patient." By then the patients' rights movement was already underway, whose conceptual history traces back to developments in Western society's twentieth-century human rights movements. Patients' histories as "medical history from below" have assumed a place in other periodizations within the history of medicine. Yet the conference volume under review is the first contribution from classicists to the field of medical or health humanities, the attendant humanities perspectives used in preprofessional and professional medical education. The twenty papers collected are the most sustained discussion of the ancient evidence of humanistic topics central to contemporary medical education: patients' emotional experience, pain management, fees, patient autonomy, narrative medicine, the clinical encounter, embodiment, and confidentiality, among others.