I'm a compliant patient, although I still feel crippled by my disorder.

Ever the compliant patient, she finished every drop of the odious sludge.

Fortunately for her caregivers, Joan had become a compliant patient: she remained where she was put.

Why, simply because he is a doctor, should he assume that women will come as trusting, respectful, and, above all, compliant patients who can be dealt with quickly?

I am what my daughter the doctor calls a compliant patient; I take my medications every day, antioxidants and Lipitor and Hydrochlorothiazide and Toprol-XL.

The traditional methodology behind clinical trials consists of various phases in which the emerging product undergoes a series of intense tests, most of which tend to occur on interested and/or compliant patients.

Finally, advertising of tranquillizers has provided an explicit message: to use drugs in controlling conflict, for example producing a less demanding and more compliant patient, or for dealing with life crises or social problems.

The results, while biologically plausible, are of limited validity, primarily because the main comparison was between compliant and noncompliant patients, and compliant patients have been shown to have an inherently better prognosis, independent of intervention.