Patients still won’t take their medicine Dr Thomas Stuttaford The Times September 11, 2006
I cannot ascertain why The Times chose this particular moment to make this proclamation; there is no new discovery or study to report. Still, the opening paragraphs so starkly and cleary delineate the issue of patient compliance that I felt compelled to post it.
Scientists at universities and in pharmaceutical industry labs spend many years and hundreds of millions of pounds in producing each new product [medication]. Doctors debate the advantages and disadvantages of every new pill and potion.
The general public then reward all this effort by making up their own mind if they will take the drugs so painstakingly prescribed.