Tuesday, July 10, 2007

Archives of Internal Medicine Invents New Condition: Prostatempathy

Filed under: Urology

A recent publication from JAMA's Archives of Internal Medicine shows that male physicians of a certain age are significantly more likely to order prostate-specific antigen (PSA) screening deemed inappropriate. The author's theory as to the mechanism at work?

This study elucidates several important provider-level determinants of PSA screening misuse and substantiates that PSA screening is frequently performed counter to evidence-based guidelines. Further work is needed to determine the degree to which "prostatempathy" contributes to PSA misuse by older male providers.

One could go into a diatribe about how the "e" at the end of "prostate" is silent, making "prostatempathy" sound the exact same as "prostate empathy" when pronounced...but that might not be a productive use of one's time, which would be somewhat ironic, given that that article focuses specifically on productive use of one's time. Right then...

More from the abstract...

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