^ I think the issue is with the degrading of the "doctor knows best" philosophy. Doctors are increasingly questioned more by patients (quite rightly in my opinion) and because of the rise of the internet, patients often come in with print outs. It, however, leads to a lack of respect for doctors and their advice, and could lead to people not completing prescriptions/following medical advice, so I do know where you are coming from. Tallis nicely describes it in Hippocratic Oaths, he says "a consultation is a meeting of experts - the patients are experts on how their condition and the treatment affects them, while the doctors are experts on the pure medicine" - perhaps if patients don't feel like the doctor is respecting their 'expertise' (which I've seen with more old school doctors) they would be more likely to disobey.