....it's not helped by many of us docs, who think we know what's best in all cases.
My GP's reaction to a suggestion that he should offer a PSA test was; "What medical reason have you got for that?" This was my second visit to the surgery since moving in 1984, so I don't know him well, and vice versa.
He then gave a counter-suggestion that I should spend less time getting half the story on the internet. My daughter, an anaesthetist, who put me up to asking in the first place, said "Go back and tell him you're entitled to it."
I'd need to change GP first, I think, and it all seems not worth it.