His Cancer Came Back. He Refused The Treatment.
A 36-year surgeon got prostate cancer. Had a metastatic recurrence. And then did something the system never trained him to do — he asked why.
This is a new episode of Diagnose This. Dr. Z is joined by Dr. Harry Black, MD, FACS, retired general surgeon and author of the upcoming Cutting Through Prostate Cancer Confusion: A Surgeon's View from Both Sides of the Knife.
For decades he watched patients cycle through specialists, scans, and dead ends before landing in his office. Someone always said the same thing: we can't find anything, so maybe something needs to come out. He reversed his own…
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