Those of us with reason to know about the gravity of this disease find that most unfortunate.
Efforts to promote AIDS prevention and convey the gravity of the disease have not reached Hispanics and other minorities, experts say.
It also can be difficult to make some patients understand the gravity of their disease or their choices, said Barbara Weaner, a nurse practitioner at West Virginia University who works with dialysis patients.
Yet it now emerges that there were repeated warnings from experts about the spread and gravity of the disease, and that European ecologists – as well as British foresters and conservationists – were begging the UK government to take all necessary measures to prevent the fungus from arriving here, so that there would at least be one uninfected redoubt.
"Patients think, 'He's fighting it, why can't I?' " But Rachel M. Schneider, a clinical social worker at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, said that while many patients are inspired by celebrities, others feel guilty for not being as upbeat as the celebrities appear, and angry that the gravity of the disease may be misrepresented.
"Sometimes, it takes a tragedy before people are convinced of the gravity of the disease".
The experts suggested deleting mortality rate because case-fatality rate better reflects the gravity of the disease.
"Sometimes it takes a tragedy before people are convinced of the gravity of the disease," he said.
Patients' made a connection between the gravity of the disease and the information needed; more serious cancer gave rise to a greater need for information.
