Treatment for prostate cancer is one of the most rapidly developing areas in medicine, providing men with a wide and sometimes confusing range of treatment options.
While our scientific understanding of the disease is marching forward, the culture of the doctor patient relationship in the UK is changing more slowly.
Some patients remain reluctant to ask their doctor many questions.
Others may grill their doctor a little more, but steer clear of the question I see as the most important of all: how many of these procedures have you carried out?
In America for example, patients are well practiced in researching treatment options then asking doctors about their experience and outcomes. Much of this data is widely available on the internet.
However in the UK, this approach remains rather alien. I do see a growing number of patients who have found my clinic through their own research, rather than a GP or consultant referral.
But patients rarely ask how many procedures I have carried out. This is possibly due to a sense of respect; a perception that it may suggest a lack of trust.
Yet it is so important. Your ability to perform a procedure safely, effectively, with the optimal outcome for your patient is based, to […]

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