“ No one wakes up and says, ‘Yes, today is a good day for a colonoscopy.’
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From Mind Your Body: Doctors’ Orders—Without Distress (By Jay Dixit, Psychology Today, January 01, 2008) The colonoscopy quote in the heading may be my favorite of all the declarations made about improving patient compliance.
My second favorite, also from this article, is
Getting people to do the things they need to do to keep themselves healthy is tricky.
In addition to offering great quotes, this piece is one of the best articles on noncompliance I’ve seen in the lay press. While it is not all-inclusive, it does also offer outstanding advice for patients coping with a difficult medication regimen (e.g., taking meds that produce severe side-effects). Heck, it’s even inspirational.
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