My understanding is that PSA testing is no longer recommended, especially for older men. In fact I don’t think the test is even covered any more under the Ontario health plan.
Edit: removed speculation that Charles has prostate cancer as the news seems to be that he does not, and it’s some other form of cancer. This is probably not good news as prostate tumors are relatively treatable and can even be benign, whereas other forms of cancer probably not so much.
I’m not surprised, it never made much sense to me if the DRE is deprecated. The negative side of the cost-benefit tradeoff is not that sticking a finger up your bum is itself dangerous, it’s the harm from surgical interventions after a false positive diagnosis, and a PSA test would obviously be a part of the diagnostic testing prior to surgery if they suspected something based on the digital exam.
Band RE-name:
Butthole Surgery (formally the Butthole Surfers)
Thank you for the reminder. I have blood work scheduled in 2 weeks including PSA. I will have to discuss with the missus about getting something penciled into the Daytimer.
For some reason my Endocrinologist has me down as covered for the PSA. I had to pay for the 1st one, but my annual visit is listed as covered on the lab requisition because I am on testosterone replacement therapy.
Makes sense. There are many exceptions carved into OHIP rules, usually at the doctor’s discretion as justified by some specific condition.
No, this is not the case. You’re king because Parliament passed laws that have made you king. Divine right of kings and selection by God fell into the basket with the head of Charles I in 1649, and was then curb-stomped by the Bill of Rights (the real one) in 1688/89. The Church of England firmly supported William and Mary, then Anne, then the Hanoverians. The non-jurors were driven out of the Church.
You wouldn’t know it from all the ceremony that goes into that fancy coronation. I’m not sure that “Parliament has decided hundreds of years before you were born that it is your destiny to be king” is any less of a psychological burden, though.
My urologist explained that, beside getting an idea of just how enlarged the prostate is, he’s also trying to tell whether it is squishy or hard. Squishy is normal, hard (or a hard spot) is not normal and calls for further checking.
While the royals have a lifestyle that most of us will never experience, it’s not that special. Most of the one percent have a similar or better standard of living, and don’t have to account to anyone for their lifestyle choices either.
and they don’t have to live in a house full of mice.
On the other hand, much as they’d prefer otherwise, most of one percent don’t have people bowing to them every day.
From the article:
Closure of the kitchens would probably mean the queen would have to move from the palace, her London home, to Windsor Castle west of London if she wanted hot food, a royal insider told the Sun.
The article is from 2001 so they may have got rid of the mice by now, but good luck with moving to Windsor Castle to escape them. Windsor is the oldest occupied castle in the world; construction started in 1070, just four years after the Norman Conquest, and it’s absolutely huge. I suspect that it’s been home to countless generations of rodents for nearly a thousand years!