ABSTRACT
Pediatric compliance has been one of my interests for many years. Not that I am as
preoccupied with having patients do what doctors tell them as many of my colleagues.
Being a therapeutic minimalist and having a profound faith in the wisdom of the body, with
the tincture of time as my preferred prescription for self and others, I have often thought
that some patients who elected to refuse or modify the advice they got were quite wise. Having
become aware of the doctor-patient relationship dilemma, I was interested in subjecting
this broad and important issue to scientific inquiry and quantitative analysis, with hopes that the
ensuing body of scientific information would be applied to pediatric education and practice.
