Patient or Client?

I am curious what people think of this pet peeve of mine. I am a doctor specialized in psychiatry. I always refer to the people I see for care as “my patients”. There are several folks where I work who try to correct me to say “my clients”. This intensely irks me. A taylor or butcher has clients. A doctor has patients. At center of my relationship with those for whom I care is trust, care, empathy, and my expertise, not commerce. The transformation of “patients” into “clients” speaks to the very troubling growing commercialism in medicine. It speaks to the replacement of professionalism with greed. It devalues unique individuals into mere consumers. I resist this viscerally. What does the rest of the fluther think?