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Overtreatment of prostate cancer in the active surveillance era

Common Sense Family Doctor

Time spent diagnosing, monitoring, and treating asymptomatic prostate cancer in men with limited life expectancy distracts from monitoring and treating their symptomatic life-limiting illnesses. Also, limited life expectancy increases the likelihood of complications from most procedures, including radiation therapy.

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Readers Endorse Doctor Migration and Shun ‘Elderspeak’

Physician's Weekly

A podcast producer and director emeritus of WOUB Public Media zeroed in on our article about restless doctors, sharing his thoughts on X: This must be Trump and Kennedy’s idiotic plan to make American Healthy Again… [link] — Tom Hodson (@thodson) May 29, 2025 — Tom Hodson, Athens, Ohio Oh, Canada Welcomes American Doctors!