Modifying the treatment: Patient compliance, patient control and medical care

Actors, patients and agency: a recent history

“…In the 1970s the term non‐compliance began to replace that of default in sociological writing on medicine‐taking (Hayes‐Bautista ) and a few years later medical writers also began self‐consciously to use the expression ‘defaulters or non‐compliers’. In the 1990s an even more non‐judgemental expression, non‐adherence, became the preferred descriptor and during the first decade of the 21 st century it was joined by another term, concordance, that reflected the idea that if doctor and patient shared treatment decisions the problem of non‐adherence should disappear, as no medicine would be prescribed without the patient's endorsement (Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain ).…”

Outpatient Requests, Initial Sessions and Attrition

“…Or, perhaps the patient is not really a "terminator" but a "postponer" [46], with attrition reflecting the patient's desire to be seen "as needed" rather than a passive acceptance of a more traditional definition of what patient roles ought to be [24] . Attrition may represent adaptive coping mechanisms or strategies to regain mastery [47] . In some cases, patients who drop out of therapy may be healthier than those who remain [48], or may be making an active, autonomous decision based on their own assessment of the situation[ 101.…”

Lingual Radicular Rift Valley in a Mandibular Right First Premolar Root: Report of a Rare Case and Review of the Literature

“…Most patients want to participate in making the decision about the treatment strategy, and the two main tasks for the clinician lie in offering different available treatment plans and instruction about the selection process instead of choosing the best plan irrespective of the patient's wishes (Hayes-Bautista, 1976;Nease et al, 1995;Deber et al, 1996). In other words, clinicians must adjust their treatment plans accordingly.…”