The author is a diabetologist and Professor of Endocrinology, Diabetology and Metabolic Diseases at the Paris 13-University. He has also published Pourquoi Se soigne-t-on, Enquête sur la rationalité morale de l’observance (2007), Clinique de l’Observance, L’Exemple des diabètes (2006), and Une théorie du soin, Souci et amour face à la maladie (2010). An English adaptation of the first book is published by Springer (Philosophy and Medicine) under the title: The Mental Mechanisms of Patient Adherence to Long Term Therapies, Mind and Care.

From the book reviews: "The audience is extremely broad, including clinicians, patients, educators, research psychologists, and everyone, including perhaps insurance actuaries, who have an interest in improving patient care outcomes. ... This is a well-studied and thought-out book that is outstandingly thought provoking. Every clinician can identify with many of these issues." (Vincent F. Carr, Doody's Book Reviews, March, 2015)

• Introduction.- Definitions.- The Evidence: The Gap Between Clinical Guidelines and Reality.- Determinants and Explanatory Models of Clinical Inertia.- The Doctor and Evidence-Based Medicine.- To Do or Not to Do: A Critique of Medical Reason.- Fighting Against True Clinical Inertia.- Conclusion: Time for Medical Reason.- References.

The author is a diabetologist and Professor of Endocrinology, Diabetology and Metabolic Diseases at the Paris 13-University. He has also published Pourquoi Se soigne-t-on, Enquête sur la rationalité morale de l’observance (2007), Clinique de l’Observance, L’Exemple des diabètes (2006), and Une théorie du soin, Souci et amour face à la maladie (2010). An English adaptation of the first book is published by Springer (Philosophy and Medicine) under the title: The Mental Mechanisms of Patient Adherence to Long Term Therapies, Mind and Care.

From the book reviews: "The audience is extremely broad, including clinicians, patients, educators, research psychologists, and everyone, including perhaps insurance actuaries, who have an interest in improving patient care outcomes. ... This is a well-studied and thought-out book that is outstandingly thought provoking. Every clinician can identify with many of these issues." (Vincent F. Carr, Doody's Book Reviews, March, 2015)

• Introduction.- Definitions.- The Evidence: The Gap Between Clinical Guidelines and Reality.- Determinants and Explanatory Models of Clinical Inertia.- The Doctor and Evidence-Based Medicine.- To Do or Not to Do: A Critique of Medical Reason.- Fighting Against True Clinical Inertia.- Conclusion: Time for Medical Reason.- References.

The author is a diabetologist and Professor of Endocrinology, Diabetology and Metabolic Diseases at the Paris 13-University. He has also published Pourquoi Se soigne-t-on, Enquête sur la rationalité morale de l’observance (2007), Clinique de l’Observance, L’Exemple des diabètes (2006), and Une théorie du soin, Souci et amour face à la maladie (2010). An English adaptation of the first book is published by Springer (Philosophy and Medicine) under the title: The Mental Mechanisms of Patient Adherence to Long Term Therapies, Mind and Care.

From the book reviews: "The audience is extremely broad, including clinicians, patients, educators, research psychologists, and everyone, including perhaps insurance actuaries, who have an interest in improving patient care outcomes. ... This is a well-studied and thought-out book that is outstandingly thought provoking. Every clinician can identify with many of these issues." (Vincent F. Carr, Doody's Book Reviews, March, 2015)

• Introduction.- Definitions.- The Evidence: The Gap Between Clinical Guidelines and Reality.- Determinants and Explanatory Models of Clinical Inertia.- The Doctor and Evidence-Based Medicine.- To Do or Not to Do: A Critique of Medical Reason.- Fighting Against True Clinical Inertia.- Conclusion: Time for Medical Reason.- References.