How'd it get to the advances stage?
It's a slow growing cancer. Wasn't he checking his PSA levels?
IMO, if it were possible, every doctor should have to experience for a while, what their patients deal with.
I think it would make them more compassionate.
I knew of a young OB whose wife delivered a month premature. I figured it would make him a better doctor because he had been there and knew what it was like to have a child having been born in that situation.
Of course, she was treated like royalty by the nursing staff, like the rest of us weren’t.
His ongoing, firsthand experience with cancer is very likely to make him a more thoughtful and compassionate doctor to his cancer patients. There are Pros and Cons to that.
One possible “Con”: If I am about to be told a have a soon to be fatal disease or condition, I don’t want my Doctor making a bad thing even worse by delivering this news ‘with tears in his eyes’. No, thank you.
Then, I would really feel like the floor had just dropped out from beneath me. That there is absolutely no hope. He may be too close to that particular kind of misery to do this. Delegate that part of the Office Visit to your Nurse Practitioner. Personally, my own misery does not love company.
Diagnosed with advanced prostate cancer? A doctor? I would think a doctor would know to get regularly checked out just with blood tests alone, the PSA test. That’s what I do every few months.
This was a good read.
Thank you,
So the doctor did not remove his prostate and opted for radiation treatment instead? That tells you something about the risk/benefit of a prostatectomy. Even if you remove the prostate, you can still get prostate cancer.
I wonder how a cancer doc allowed this to get “advanced.” Did he not get annual screening? Did he not do regular blood work?
I have a lot of questions.