Doctor: “how are you feeling today? ”
patient: “i am ok, but i have some pain in my ear.”
doctor: “let me take a look at it. it looks like you have an ear infection.”
patient: “what can i do about it? ”
doctor: “we will put you on antibiotics to treat it.”

which best describes what happened in the conversation?

the doctor was the sender, and the patient was the receiver.

the doctor was the receiver, and the patient was the sender.

the patient was both a sender and a receiver.

the doctor was neither a sender nor a receiver.