title: Believing Jeny About Her Pain.
abstract: A 19-year-old woman with cancer and excruciating pain was not easily responding to morphine. Some of the staff suspected that this pain was not physical, that it was all emotional. But when the palliative care team believed the young woman's report of her pain, they were able to arrive at the right combination of medicines to treat her pain, and to relieve her intolerable suffering.
authors.forename: M S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Biji
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D059408:Pain Management; D010166:Palliative Care / Q000523:psychology*; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: emotional distress; fifth vital sign; pain relief; palliative care