Expect compliance with a mutually acceptable treatment plan Doctors have a right to expect you to comply with a mutually acceptable treatment plan. Of course, this requires that the decision is made together and is agreeable to both you and your doctor. You should not be pressured to make decisions or influenced through incomplete or biased information. But, once you do agree to an approach to treatment, your doctor has the right to expect you to stick with it, or tell the truth if you don't. One doctor explains how his patients sometimes aren't aware of what they realistically can do.
Compliance is a hard one.
Even if you've talked over the treatment plan, some people don't know what they are capable of complying with. It's especially a problem with some older folks because they are so interested in being polite. Sometimes I have to break through that reticence to really communicate. Another doctor says that he expels patients from his practice over the issue of compliance. I have a right to expect the patient to do the things they have agreed are important to do.