PSA Testing

submitted to SMH
It is hard enough to get middle aged males to go to the GP at the best of times; if one does happen to present, surely Tony Abbot is not going to be outraged at the burden to Medicare of $20.50 (according to the current Medicare Schedule) for an annual (non-age limited) PSA test? ("MP attacks Abbott on prostate comments" Online 01 September). This time his defense is (allegedly) the Prostate Cancer Foundation guidelines. Surely this "new" technology would be welcomed by him as it may replace the old fashioned digital-rectal-examination which is probably a theological abomination – especially if a second opinion is called for.