Nathan Gray: Patients’ fears can be realistic risks

Nathan Gray, Assistant Professor at Johns Hopkins Medicine, shared on X/Twitter:

“While opioids for cancer pain are recommended by many guidelines when frontline medications have failed, patients often have a range of reasons for being hesitant…

Patients’ fears can be realistic risks, and we may need ways to avoid the meds, alleviate side effects, or set safeguards. Sometimes worries (like the idea ‘taking pain meds is a sign of weakness’) need care to unpack and reassure.

But if you don’t ask, you won’t know!”

Source: Nathan Gray/X

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