Abstract: Some time ago during my medical internship in Boston, MA, USA, I took care of a 74-year-old man, Daniel, with bone metastases from prostate cancer. His son had brought him to the emergency department for pain control. On arrival, Daniel told me that he was in pain and admitted that he was not taking his full pain regimen. His son said, "my father is just being stoic". Daniel's response was: "son, there are worse things than pain". This remark struck me, mostly because many of the patients I had seen over the years had seemed to feel that there was nothing worse than pain.
Publication Year: 2015
Publication Date: 2015-04-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref', 'pubmed']
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