The phrase "are reluctant to undergo" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing someone's unwillingness or hesitation to experience or participate in something, often in a formal or academic context.
Example: "Many patients are reluctant to undergo surgery due to the potential risks involved."
Alternatives: "are hesitant to experience" or "are unwilling to accept".
It is also used, although less commonly, in older patients who are reluctant to undergo an arthroplasty [1, 2, 3].
"We have heard stories from dozens who have had surgery to correct nasal obstruction – with limited success and great expense – and hundreds who are reluctant to undergo surgery in the first place and feel they have no alternative for breathing better throughout the day, at night, or during exercise.
Another reason for low rates of initial screening, he said, is that many people are reluctant to undergo a procedure that requires fasting the day before, and then having a mild anesthesia while a doctor inserts a tube up the intestine to look for polyps.
Owing to the invasiveness of the approach, many patients are reluctant to undergo this diagnostic method.
However, many patients are reluctant to undergo the procedure due to its invasiveness and high costs.
In addition the severity of illness of the patients has meant that many are reluctant to undergo additional testing above the neuropsychological and efficacy assessments.
Or maybe because it promised a sort of spasm that I was reluctant to undergo in public — even if I believed that such a thrill was possible.
And, while Western papers have for years written about Yeltsin's myriad infirmities, the Russian press has more often quoted the fibs of Presidential spokesmen... Parkhomenko discovered not only that Yeltsin was reluctant to undergo surgery but also that the few doctors capable of performing the operation were none too enthusiastic about taking on the responsibility.
However, the patient was reluctant to undergo further surgical procedures and elected alternative medical management with cyclosporine 1% and medroxyprogesterone acetate 1% eye drops.
He had been reluctant to undergo further surgery, but speaking ahead of Friday's operation said: "Obviously this isn't the news I wanted to be sharing with everyone.
And she's reluctant to undergo the alternative, which is a pat-down, because they are often performed incorrectly by TSA officers.
