title: What is wrong with compliance?
abstract: Non-compliance is a label often used about patients who do not follow therapeutic advice. This paper analyses the notion of compliance, and tries to show that this notion is inextricably bound to a paternalistic conception of the doctor-patient relationship. It is proposed that we should perhaps not talk so much about the non-compliant patient, but instead shift the focus towards the non-compliant doctor.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Biostatistics and Theory of Medicine, Copenhagen, Denmark.
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Holm
mesh_terms: D030881:Disclosure; D004992:Ethics, Medical; D006801:Humans; D009014:Morals; D026706:Paternalism; D010349:Patient Compliance / Q000523:psychology*; D028701:Patient Rights; D026684:Personal Autonomy; D010686:Philosophy, Medical; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D012945:Social Values; D016312:Treatment Refusal