Patients, as well as healthcare pro fessionals, can suffer from "burnout." The author suggests that the constant stress and frustration of diabetes man agement can lead to "patient burn out. " When considering patient com pliance healthcare professionals should be aware of this phenomenon as well as their own attitudes and ap proaches toward the patient.
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Joan Williams Hoover (1983) studied this question.