Robert Hoy, PA-C, on communication tips for APPs to enhance collaboration
August 30th 2024“[This way, I can] educate myself and put myself in their shoes and suggest a treatment or a plan or an evaluation, and then find out what their feedback might be from a collaborative standpoint,” say Robert D. Hoy, MPAS, PA-C.
Dr. Jennifer Ann Meddings on implementing a urinary retention evaluation protocol
August 30th 2024"Our hope is that if we can improve the experience of their initial treatment for urinary retention, then particularly the patients who actually need to catheterize to maintain their kidney health, they would not be afraid of catheterization," says Jennifer Ann Meddings, MD, MSc.
Armine K. Smith, MD, recaps BCAN session on oligometastatic bladder cancer
August 29th 2024"We have now realized that in some patients with a low number of metastatic sites, providing systemic treatment and providing some site-targeted treatment will provide lasting benefit or at least a temporary benefit that will help ameliorate the need for the systemic treatments or very intense systemic treatments," says Armine K. Smith, MD.
Study: GU cancer survivors report difficulty affording mental health, dental care
August 28th 2024“While the medications might be covered, while the surgical treatment might be covered, we all know that mental health and dental care are one of those things where people have large copays, long delays to care, and it is very clear to see that from our study,” says Laura Bukavina, MD, MPH, MSc.
Thairo Pereira, MD, on IU’s andrology fellowship, research on ‘couplepause’
August 27th 2024"We hypothesize that when we treat female sexual dysfunction, we can ultimately improve the dynamics between the couple, and therefore improve the male partner satisfaction with his IPP," says Thairo Pereira, MD.