GP skips rectal exam in prostate patients
7th July 2015
A GP who failed to perform digital rectal examinations on two men with prostatomegaly but treated them with complementary medicine is facing sanctions in Tasmania.
After seeing Dr Anthony Alfred Lyall for the best part of a year, one of the men was examined by another GP and sent for an emergency radical prostatectomy for malignancy.
The man, Patient L, knew he had an enlarged prostate and had