In instructing a patient about corticosteroid therapy,the patient asks if he can just stop this medication before returning to the physician's office.Which of the following would be the nurse's best response?
A) "Take this medication until you've completed it."
B) "The medication must be slowly reduced."
C) "Go ahead;there is no real precaution with this drug therapy."
D) "The amount you're taking is small,so stopping is all right at any time."
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