In Med Sociology courses, I bumped into the concept "patient compliance"
ALL the time and it ground my gears, too.

However, as nice as it is to know LCs don't operate (most of the time, most
of us) within that realm, I continue to run into it.  Classic and most
personal example: when I questioned my own MD's diagnosis of a problem and
insisted on a second medical opinion (which by the way did not confirm the
first one), my MD dumped me as a patient!  Clearly, I did not "comply" with
her wishes.

So much for reality.  I like to think of the above example as one in which
"physician compliance" was not in my own best interests nor what I would
have preferred!  :-)

Here's to improving vocabularies and concepts that seek to describe the
health care-client relationship and behaviors therein!!!



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