The Good Patient
By Jeffry Fawcett, October 3, 2006 in the Editorials blog
The good patient is an obedient patient, one who adheres to the physician’s prescription in taking medications as directed. When patients are nonadherent-that’s the phrase used in the conventional medical literature-treatment is thwarted. According to the main article in last week’s Archives of Internal Medicine, “This misuse sometimes results in progression of disease and treatment failure.” [Read more…]