Yesby Anomalous (no login)This type of thing happens in all fields of medicine. Each type of specialist or generalist has his/her own set of non-compliant patients. It's difficult to put a number on how many patients are non-compliant vs. compliant. There are varying degrees, as well. So much depends on the patient, on if the patient trusts the doctor, on the regimen (the difficulty of the treatment or the length of time that a patient needs to be non-weight bearing). Sometimes, if a patient has a musculoskeletal injury of some sort and the podiatrist suspects or has evidence that the patient is not going to be compliant, he/she will put the patient in a cast to prevent non-compliance. I would venture to guess that podiatrists have a slightly higher number of non-compliant patients compared with other medical specialties simply because people do not like to be non-weight bearing. This is the area that we see most of our non-compliance. In my practice, I would say that about 25% of my patients do not follow my orders to the letter. from IP address 64.161.168.44 Goto Forum Home |
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