As an online subscriber to PCRI's Insights (it's free and very informative, you can sign up for it if you wish at their website), I regularly get updates on things they are doing, including their conferences.
When looking at their 2013 Conference agenda (in Los Angeles this coming September, not going, but looking at it out of interest), I noticed a rather curious program:
Saturday, September 7, 2013
2:30-3:20 PM Live Onstage Biopsy. Duke Bahn, MD, and Mark Scholz, MD
See conference agenda:
prostate-cancer.org/events-calendar/2013-prostate-cancer-conference/agenda/Really? Are they actually going to do a real prostate biopsy on some guy up on a stage in front of an audience of several hundred people? That's not exactly a sterile environment, not to mention the privacy issues. Do they have the guy in a privacy enclosure, with TV monitors nearby, showing the "internal" action as it happens? I can't imagine they are talking about
doing something with a medical dummy or something like that (hardly what the program title implies). It all sounds very strange.
That would sure be one public awareness program that would make the public very aware!
My first thought was that it really means something like "Live onstage (talking about
) biopsy" or something like that. Perhaps it's a "grabber" title to increase attendance at what is actually a discussion group or something. But the program title says what it says. Am I missing something?
I searched the PCRI website looking for clarification, and then googled the topic, without turning up any further information.
Do any of you know any more about
this? Or do you know if their earlier conferences have ever done anything like this? I still get the feeling I'm missing something, or misinterpreting it.
On the other hand, if this is for real, it's one heck of a way of getting out the word about
prostate biopsy!
Anybody know any more about
this?