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Gleason 8 diagnosis at 51: Likely opting for surgery

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we all have experienced you and your husband's frustration. As many of us have heard, doctors are dedicated but not infallible. There are many natural biases that restrict the flow of information to patients from one doctor/institution to another, but not to intentionally hurt anybody.
Capital investments/Return on investment by hospitals/doctors, uninformed doctors that do not have time to look at the most recent technology, slowness in randomized trials, delayed updates to nccn.org recommendations, limited time with doctors, and on and on have a huge impact on a patients' doctor to patient knowledge.
This site provides, thanks to Mayo, something other institutions do not focus on, but absolutely should...the ability to share experiences as patients from a wide variety of specialists and institutions, in almost real time, which is a great way to understand issues and options for treatments. I know so many people that have helped me process all the complicated issues when I was doing my research. Too bad this kind of sharing through centers of excellence is not done more.

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Still, if you choose this "craft" for your profession (being a doctor, nobody forced you to get that degree), you should ALWAYS do your best and stayed informed and continually further your education and really show interest in EVERY of your patients. At the last consultations that we had couple of days ago he was in hurry to go to his lunch and half of the consult was him fumbling on computer trying to find MRI scan to show us prostate image and only after my husband asked him to. He was also trying to find what and where was discovered during biopsy by reading pathology report below so I had to read it to him from my papers . When I mentioned that "ball was dropped" he nonchalantly said that it would not make any difference if C was of lesser degree since cryotherapy and local treatments do not give cure. When I said that we would have option to remove P he said but you can not, he (meaning my husband who was sitting right there by side ????) is on blood-thinners. I almost fainted - first he is NOT on thinners , he is off them for long time now , and second any patient on Plavix can always stop using it before surgery and than continue using it after healing. I was like "WHO ARE you ???" O_O Such lack of knowledge about pharmacology and he is a surgeon , OMG. I was so shocked that I just froze with million thoughts rushing through my mind all at once. I understood at that moment that not only he was not following protocol but that he is completely uninterested in my husband's case and him as a human being and that his knowledge is questionable in general. And yes, he finished top schools blah blah blah - NO school will make a jerk good doctor - period !!! This was negligence, as simple as that.