What is your single biggest frustration with your patients as a clinician?

Frustration: Non-compliance with recommended treatment inspire of time spent explaining benefits and risks involved, basically lack of motivation to change or make treatment work for self.

Case-dependent: Very individual-dependent:client and provider. For me it has to do with treatment non-adherence. There are reasons why people stop taking medicine or going to psychotherapy sessions, or relapsing back into addictions, you just have to explore all that with a client and pick up things from there. As a therapist, have to monitor reactions to particular things, so they won't interfere with treatment.

Expectations: People sometimes expect the doctor to "fix" them, without their needing to investigate or alter their behavior in any way. Getting sick is like a wake-up call, since so many of our diseases are lifestyle-driven. These same people often do not understand that authentic healing is an incremental, not "one fell swoop, " process -- requiring participation of both patient and doctor.