The coronavirus pandemic has stimulated considerable debate in one really contentious area of healthcare: Should we be providing extremely limited human and material resources to care for those people who, historically, may not be compliant with the recommended management of their chronic diseases and health? In this episode of The Handover, I’m not exactly going to respond to that issue directly, but rather, I’m going to look at one of the deeply troubling assumptions that underpin this question in the first place, particularly the concept of compliance. And, I’m going to suggest that, for several reasons, we have developed a really skewed perspective of what 'compliance' means, how we may be erroneously interpreting healthcare data and what this entails for the healthcare consumer. The Handover, brought to you by Ausmed. For more information, visit www.ausmed.com.au.