undertreat
verb
un·der·treat
ˌən-dər-ˈtrēt 
undertreated; undertreating; undertreats
: to treat inadequately
undertreat a disease
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Today, in our more enlightened times, listening to the science sometimes means listening to the doctors who systematically undertreat pain in their Black patients.
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John Patrick Leary, The New Republic, 16 Apr. 2021
The drugmaker Purdue Pharma had sent an army of sales reps into eastern Kentucky and other regions with high disability rates to promote the idea that pain was vastly undertreated, and that its new drug was virtually nonaddictive.
—Beth MacY, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2020
There is a need for Reyvow because migraines remain under-recognized and undertreated.
—Blair Chance, ABC News, 15 Feb. 2020
The society’s president at the time was Dr. Russell Portenoy, who frequently argued that chronic pain was being undertreated in the United States and later acknowledged exaggerating the benefits of opioids and understating the risks.
—Casey Ross, STAT, 2 Dec. 2019
The backdrop for its start was a long-standing debate over whether patients were being undertreated for pain because of doctors’ fears about addiction.
—Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2019
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John Patrick Leary, The New Republic, 16 Apr. 2021
The drugmaker Purdue Pharma had sent an army of sales reps into eastern Kentucky and other regions with high disability rates to promote the idea that pain was vastly undertreated, and that its new drug was virtually nonaddictive.
—Beth MacY, The Atlantic, 9 Apr. 2020
There is a need for Reyvow because migraines remain under-recognized and undertreated.
—Blair Chance, ABC News, 15 Feb. 2020
The society’s president at the time was Dr. Russell Portenoy, who frequently argued that chronic pain was being undertreated in the United States and later acknowledged exaggerating the benefits of opioids and understating the risks.
—Casey Ross, STAT, 2 Dec. 2019
The backdrop for its start was a long-standing debate over whether patients were being undertreated for pain because of doctors’ fears about addiction.
—Washington Post, 27 Aug. 2019
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