Balancing Patient Autonomy and Medical Responsibility in Steroid Dependency Management: Ethical Dilemmas, Clinical Realities, and Practical Pathways
2026 | IDOSR JOURNAL OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY | Pp. 68-72
Steroid dependency, most commonly involving long-term systemic glucocorticoids, sits at a difficult intersection of symptom relief, physiologic adaptation (HPA-axis suppression), psychological reliance, and iatrogenic harm. Clinicians routinely face ethically...