Three years ago, my husband and I drove more than 3,000 miles to move from the east coast of the United States to the west. We left behind our friends, our furniture and our summer home. Three years later, we have divested ourselves of most of our furniture, lost track of most of our friends, bur still cling to our beach house. Three thousand miles is a long commute for a vacation home that we occupied all summer, every summer since 1980. To live there from June through September is no longer feasible, but we steadfastly cling to the dream that we will continue to enjoy wonderful times there and we are simply not yet ready to say goodbye.Life is a little like our beach house-we are comfortable with what we know and while we are excited to put one foot forward on our way to a new adventure, the other lags behind (or drags behind) keeping us in the past or in another place or even in another reality. Our professional lives often mirror our personal lives. We want to learn a new technique or try out a new belief but sometimes it is simply easier to follow the teachings of our predecessors. Just because it was done in the past, does that mean we have to do it in the future? We all know that testosterone cannot be prescribed to a prostate cancer survivor, yet careful investigation reveals that 50 years of following this tenet was based on a single case report. Morgen-taler dared to march in a different direction by researching testosterone levels in men with prostate cancer [1]. This work has been carried further by Khera et al. [2,3].
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