Why Do Patients Fail to Take Their Pills?

Why are a significant number of Indian patients failing to complete their prescribed doses of medication? From reasons like forgetfulness and financial difficulties to pure dismissiveness. Dr Ambarish Mithal, Medanta’s Chairman of Endocrinology and Diabetology explores the rise of this dangerous trend of medical nonadherence and its ramifications on patient recovery in his latest piece in OPEN magazine titled ‘A Pill in Time.’