Donna Pogliano, co-author with Stephen B. Strum, MD, of _A Primer on
Prostate Cancer_ has written on PPML (Prostate Pointers Mailing List)
that she sent offers to  200  medics of free copies of the book and got
only a handful of responses. IMNSHO, that is shameful.

Last May, she and Dr. Strum published in PCRI Insights (a newsletter to
which each and every PCa patient should subscribe -- it's free, too) an
essay entitled, "What Every Doctor Who Treats Male Patients Should
Know." It is a fairly technical, footnoted, guide for the GP or PCP
(Primary Care Physician), intended to help him/her to detect PCa risks.

So far, they have received lip service but no substantial support in
their effort to get this important essay into the hands of every GP/PCP
in the land. It appears that Dr. Strum's assessment, that the only way a
medic will pay attention is if (s)he receives the essay from a patient,
the only way to gain wide dissemination.

I have given a copy to my PCP. I recommend that everyone in this
newsgroup do the same.

The essay can be found at:
http://www.prostate-cancer.org/education/preclin/StrumPogliano_EveryDocShouldKno
w.html

Regards,

Steve J