LOL,
I read through this whole tweet...
Shinde deleted his tweet since.
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Couple of comments:
- Shinde's tweet was correct in terms of data and "humanity" but politically incorrect to the Urology world, which is a shady world as we all know when it comes to prostate cancer. I am fortunate to work with a great Urologist who does not believe in RP and refer to me most pts with prostate ca for RT! He has done tons of RPs over the yrs and sees how his pts suffer from side effects of RP and he recommends against RP. Go figure.
- As to the comment above:
"Do not question the hands that feed you"...It is a difficult situation I agree if your bread/fish comes from the hands of the Urologists. However, when it is ethically bad, you need to question it from an ethical standpoint. Where do you raise the issues? Twitter, RedJ, NEJM...? The only reason Urologists get away with RP is that: the generation that they currently deal with grew up with no internet, some of these pts don't even own a computer, they trust their docs like God. These pts don't even use Google. Fifty (50) yrs from now, the current gen (which is in their 20's now)...you cannot fool them with the Urology BS, so fifty (50) yrs from now, RP is a thing of the past bc the millennium gen is very smart.
- Dr Penson's comment probably referred to "Hey, we have good collaboration with radonc, you can verify this with your chair".
But this depends on the academic level, Shinde is junior in radonc, Penson is the chair in Uro at the same institution. Penson should have been more forgiving (a Chair should be forgiving) and ignored the tweet. Instead, Penson chose to respond, which is in itself stupid for him to do.
One thing I have learned over the yrs: Urology people are very insecure themselves.