Expert testimony is necessary to establish standard of care.

MALPRACTICE; PROSTATITIS diagnosis; ANTIBIOTICS; MEDICAL quality control; PATIENT aftercare; BIOPSY; HORMONE therapy; LEGAL liability; UROLOGISTS; BENIGN prostatic hyperplasia; CASE studies; PROSTATE-specific antigen; RADIOTHERAPY; DAMAGES (Law)

The article compares two cases that highlight the nuances that can mean the difference between liability being established for a practitioner accused of malpractice and a verdict in their favor. These include the case of a man presented to the urology department of a U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs medical center and found to have an abnormally high prostate-specific antigen (PSA) level and a 59-year-old man who was examined by a urologist who conclude that he had prostatitis.