The non-compliant patient is a sub ject guaranteed to elevate the blood pressure of most diabetes health care professionals. But have you considered the frustration, the guilt, and the stigma of being labeled a non-compliant patient? It's an unfair burden to lay on someone who is already coping with this complex disease. For your sake, and that of your patient, we need a frank dis cussion of the reasons for non-com pliance. Then maybe we can treat the problem and not just its symp toms.