On 2017-11-24 10:08 AM, notbob wrote:
> On 2017-11-24, graham > wrote:
>
>> My point in raising the subject is that all you guys who post here
>> should get a regular check-up and PSA test. And ladies, persuade your
>> husbands to do the same!
>
> I recently read a book written by the inventor of the PSA test. It
> was a book exposing how the US mecical community has highjacked the
> PSA test for it's own greed and the test is no longer truly valid.
> This from the inventor! After reading this book, I know I will never
> get a PSA test.
>
> <http://www.healthbeatblog.com/2010/03/the-doctor-who-invented-psa-test-calls-it-a-profitdriven-public-health-disaster-why-this-is-good-new/>
>

I get it regularly because my father had prostate cancer.

On a humorous note, a number of years ago I was talking with the father
of a good friend of mine. When I asked him how he was he said he was
pretty good for an old guy and related this story about how he had just
been to the doctor and had his prostate checked. .... in his words as
close as I remember.....

You know it's a pretty uncomfortable procedure and I always hate having
it done, and this was a new doctor and I wasn't sure that he knew what
he was doing. But it wasn't so bad. I don't know what he did different.
He stood behind me and had me bend over. He had his left hand on my
left cheek .... no, it was on my right cheek.... hmmmm he had a hand
on each cheek....... Son of a bitch!!!!.