Non-compliant patients who, for whatever reason, do not follow doctors’ orders are a pain in the neck to their physicians. But to me, the most problematic part of that statement is the use of the word non-compliant. Simon Davies of the U.K.’s Teenage Cancer Trust once described it as “a word that sounds like it has punishment at the end of it.” Yet physicians are frustrated about why so many of us still refuse to take their expert medical advice, particularly around taking recommended medications. Continue reading “First, there was compliance. Then, adherence. Now, concordance!”
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