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Today Jenny Smith and I will define and then break down in a little more detail the term non-compliant.

We did a bunch of definitions and they've been running Fridays just in these little short

episodes and people seem to be enjoying them.

So far we've done A1C time and range, bolus basil, I think we've done pre-Bollus, honeymooning, A1CC and I was wondering there's one I want to kind of slip in here

because I want to understand it from a clinician's point of view.

This is going to be something that it's funny.

I don't really think of this as a real thing.

I guess I'll say what I think about that in a second.

But when you're doctor or a nurse or a clinician or someone, they call you non-compliant.

From a medical perspective, what are they saying?

Oh, that's a can of worms there, right?

It's a beehive, right?

But we're gonna pick through this.

There's a tiny bit of noise behind Jenny

for the first minute or so.

Maybe it's the beehive.

Unfortunately, it's commonly still a term that's used and it's used in regard to a person who

does not take a prescribed medication or follow a prescribed course of treatment

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