‘Doctors are getting shot’: Navigating the perils of pain pill prescribing in the midst of an opioid crisis

The recent murder of Dr. Todd Graham has shaken physicians across the U.S.

Graham was shot by the husband of a new patient who had asked him earlier that day for opioids to control chronic pain. Graham, an orthopedist in Mishawaka, Ind., had refused to write the prescription, explaining that the powerful pain pills weren’t appropriate treatment. The patient’s husband tracked him down later in the parking lot and pulled out a gun.