Physicians are constantly confronted with the challenge of managing numerous personal, interpersonal, and professional commitments. Amongst these commitments are individual patients, whose needs are constantly contending with those of other patients, as well as the needs of the physician’s close relations. What physicians may forget, however, is that the patients themselves are forced to juggle their own commitments, as they adapt to illnesses that impact themselves, their loved ones, and their broader social world. Both physicians and patients are constantly juggling the competing interests in their lives—and importantly, they are juggling each other. To capture the theme of the patient juggling the physician and the physician juggling the patient, we have utilized the technique of mise en abyme (French: “Placed into the abyss”). Through the recursive property of the mise en abyme technique, the normally asymmetric activity of juggling is inverted, such that the juggler becomes the juggled. The ambiguity of roles thereby engendered is further enhanced by the video format of the piece, through which it is impossible to define a beginning or an end to “the juggling act”—the patient and physician come together as having always already been placed in a position of competing personal commitments. Through constantly inverting the role of the physician and patient as juggler and juggled, it is hoped that each can find their experiences symbolized in those of the other.