ABSTRACT
Not all patients (note the difference in terminology where sociologists refer to these individuals as clients) wish to have their infertility investigated because they are not sufficiently highly motivated, because of guilt, because of fear, or a simple unwillingness to have medicalised such an intimate area of their lives. This may be much worse in some ethnic groups which demand female-only medical staff involvement which may not be organisationally feasible. Some men decline investigation or examination which causes them to default from further attendance, amounting to 5–10 per cent.
