Editorial comment

The authors attempt to delineate various factors leading to patients ’ choice of urologists. The paper is well written with interesting data. This data were collected from an academic tertiary care center which is a very different animal when compared to community hospitals. So this paper applies to employed physicians making up about 25% of the urologic work force here in the United States (AUA census 2018). This academic center is located in a metropolitan area in Wisconsin. That being said the choice of urologist is very different for those who live within that metropolitan area when compared to the choices available to citizens residing in the 63% of US c ounties which have no urologist, or 1 of the 10% of counties which have only 1 urologist (AUA census 2018).
Source: Urology - Category: Urology & Nephrology Authors: Source Type: research