Treatment Noncompliance: Free Will or Symptom of Illness?

In Pate-Fires v. Astrue , 564 F.3d 935 (8th Cir. 2009), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit considered an appeal by Donna Pate-Fires of her denial of Social Security Disability benefits by the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Arkansas. The district court had affirmed the