When presented with options and conflicting recommendations, patients frequently ask their doctor what he or she would do if faced with the same issue. Nowhere in urology is this more prevalent than in prostate cancer management and, increasingly, in decisions about the merits of prostate specific antigen (PSA) screening. What is a patient supposed to think when one learned body recommends that a PSA be obtained in all men at age 40 years and another strongly opposes PSA screening in anyone? The recommendation that a patient consider the pros and cons of screening and then make his own decision can be even more troubling. No wonder a man may simply ask the doctor to put himself in the same position and say “what would you do.” Continues....
What Would You Do, Doctor?
The "New" Prostate Cancer InfoLink view on the article along with some feedback:
“What would YOU do doctor?” A urologist’s take on the PSA controversy
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