Helen Smith: Why don’t Men Get Prostate Exams?

Good question.

I must say the answer is pretty obvious! That said, I’ve gotten one every year since I turned 50. What I didn’t realize is that the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF) now recommends that healthy men should no longer receive prostate-specific antigen (PSA) blood tests as part of routine cancer screening. (Follow above link).

This is news to me. Wonder why news like this isn’t as widely transmitted as the recommendation changes regarding mammograms. Just wonderin’, know what I mean?

Glenn Reynolds (Helen’s husband in the interest of full disclosure) comments:

It’s all about fairness. When women’s life expectancy is reduced to match men’s that’ll be fair. It’s Buffett-rule logic applied to health care. . .

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