Saw a big poster in the doctor's office to this effect earlier today and found it unbelievable…

For years, both doctors and my fellow sheep have reacted with horror at my choice to dispense with annual digital rectal examination in favour of simply seeing a doctard only when I sensed something was wrong.

And now it seems that, in very Orwellian fashion, something I was suicidal to eschew before is suddenly contraindicated. (and yes, I'm using big words so the Peterborians around me won't know what I'm saying.)