At a 2016 meeting on a research study designed to explore the effect of coproduction1—the cocreation of health care by professionals and patients—on outcomes in long-term disease, a mentor asked about my progress on the project in the preceding few weeks. I explained that being on our busy cardiology consult service had left me little time to accomplish much. Looking at me from under bushy brows, he asked if I had seen any patients with heart failure that I might have viewed through the lens of coproduction. Abashed at my failure to do that, I reflected on my time on the service and discovered several patients with heart failure sitting at the front of my mind, waiting to be seen through that lens.