This embarrassment of riches, however, besieges men with a bewildering array of treatment choices, conflicting advice from doctors--and a lack of definitive studies comparing the options.
Landorf said her father had been a doctor, and she trusts her doctors' advice.
In its submission to the consultation, the National Clinical Forum - a panel of leading doctors set up to give advice to health boards on service change - said plans to maintain secondary care at four hospital sites were "unsustainable" and that a two-centre model was the "only option with a chance of longer-term sustainability".
With such a link, doctors in the U.S. can monitor the condition of a patient in real time and offer advice just as if that patient was in a telemetry-equipped bed in an intensive care unit across the hall.
Further, a study in Colorado suggests 62 percent of doctors changed their advice to match the U.S. guideline and 16 percent fewer women got the test.
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Dr Vivienne Nathanson, head of science and ethics at the British Medical Association, said the advice provides "a good steer" for doctors on how to approach the difficult area of end of life care.
HealthTap founder Ron Gutman emphasizes that the doctors on Healthtap do not give medical advice or make a diagnosis.
She got some advice from me about how to approach the doctors with a letter and get a proper medical evaluation for her dad.
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Connecting the advice doctors give to the scientific evidence is the point of a new commentary on obesity appearing this week in the electronic edition of the respected New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM), Myths, Presumptions, and Facts About Obesity.
Another reason may be that doctors, confronted with a bold-print, boxed warning, do heed its advice.
Ignoring advice from doctors to rest, Beljan played on over the weekend and carded a three-under-par round of 69 on Sunday, which secured him a two-shot victory over compatriot Matt Every.
The organisation representing British doctors has written to NHS bosses to call for a delay in the launch of a new non-emergency telephone advice line.
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