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Being Difficult: For Some Patients, It's a Coping Mechanism

Date: October 21, 2008
Author: Sandra G. Boodman
QUOTE: "I tried being the 'good patient,' " said Mayer, who until illness forced her to retire was an assistant research professor in the school of public health at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Becoming difficult -- some, she said, might call it "empowered" -- was her "natural reaction" to doctors who were "incompetent, rude or domineering."

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