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Depends. People are messy. What you say is true. Sometimes education or a lack thereof is at fault. Sometimes doctors are too educated to explain the issue in a way that a person who doesn’t enjoy textbooks, but has common sense, can understand.
But nothing that involves people is 100%. There is a slice who don’t want to be uncomfortable and therefore will not engage with the recommended healthcare.
You mean I have to stay in a hospital where they interrupt my sleep every 4hrs to monitor my condition which is bad enough to require a hospital stay? No.
You mean I have to wait 3 months to see the specialist my PCP recommended for my problem to be eased or fixed? No, I’m going to the Emergency Room. They have doctors, therefore they can fix it. Not quite. Emergency Room declared me stable and offered me Tylenol, assholes, no one will help me. Crumples up discharge paperwork and throws it away. Spoiler: paperwork contains referral to needed specialist to fix problem, possibly even with a sooner appointment.
We are people. As such we really do exercise impatience and refusal to engage uncomfortable things on occasion. There’s no this is 100% not happening. There’s also no this is happening 70% of the time.