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One of the fundamental issues in medicine is that of noncompliance, that is, the decision of the patient to delay, reduce, or terminate treatment. The premise of this paper is that noncompliance is not simply inadequate communication on the part of the physician, i.e., not enough objective information, nor is it solely the result of poor coping mechanisms, e.g., denial on the part of the patient. Rather, noncompliance is primarily the result of cognitive dissonance between models which are held by the patient versus models which are held by the physician.
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Zeiner, H.K. (1985). Cognitive Aspects of Illness and Health. In: Zeiner, A.R., Bendell, D., Walker, C.E. (eds) Health Psychology. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-4901-3_9
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