PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
ED  - ,
TI  - Taking medicines
AID  - 10.1136/dtb.3.8.30
DP  - 1965 Apr 16
TA  - Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin
PG  - 30--31
VI  - 3
IP  - 8
4099  - http://dtb.bmj.com/content/3/8/30.short
4100  - http://dtb.bmj.com/content/3/8/30.full
SO  - Drug Ther Bull1965 Apr 16; 3
AB  - Most doctors know from their own experience as patients that it is difficult to continue a course of drugs to the end if one begins to feel better or if one feels that the drugs are doing no good. Yet many of us seem to suppose that our own patients behave better as patients than we ourselves do. This is unlikely enough and it takes no account of a further reason for failure to follow instructions: that they have not been understood by the patient.