I don't know why the doctors continue to paint such rosy pictures for normalcy after prostate cancer. Each of the docs I went to said "The other therapies leave significant side effects, but not mine."
Then they would offer reassuring words, give me a handout with statistics to back up what they had said, and out the door I went.
Here is the sobering truth.
“I had surgery by a doctor who said 98 percent of my patients are perfectly fine,” said Mr. Nelson, now 51. “Of course, I wasn’t perfectly fine.”
The Side Effects? Well, There Is One...
Realistic expectations MUST be communicated. Otherwise you set men up for a double-whammy.
But I have a feeling that it once again comes down to money. Physicians don't follow the #1 rule of a great business - under promise and over deliver.
But then again, we don't have a lot of choice, do we?
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