| Hans-Günter Meyer-Thompson | International
USA. Physician's Murder Highlights Risk of Saying 'No' to Opioids
(...) "Patients have become more difficult," said A. J. Mencias, MD, in an interview with Medscape Medical News. "A lot of them don't react so well when you deny them opioid painkillers."
Sometimes relatives of pain patients who hear the word 'no' don't react so well either, which happened to Dr Graham, a popular 56-year-old physician. He was shot to death on July 26 by the husband of a patient whose request for opioid painkillers he denied earlier that day. The patient's husband, Michael Jarvis, then took his own life. (Medscape, 07.08.2017)