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On the recordOctober 15, 2014
Hippocrates was right: patients lie. About a third of patients don't take medication as prescribed and a third don't take them at all.
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Michael Burgess
Republican · Texas

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Burgess emphasizes the issue of patient noncompliance in medication adherence.

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