ABSTRACT
Attempts by one individual to gain compliance, concession, obedience, acquiesence, or allegiance from another have, from antiquity, met with resistance. Opposition and sabotage have typically accompanied the attempt by one person to impose his or her own will on another, even when the influence has been nobly initiated, solely for the good of the other. As we see in this chapter, difficulties in eliciting compliance often result from understandable differences in perspective between the influencer and the potentially influenced. This is particularly true when the influencer is a medical practitioner and the target of influence is a patient.
