Patient with enlarged prostate

You are a female healthcare worker and you are visiting Giuseppe, a 70-year-old client. Today he is looking very uncomfortable. You notice that he is fidgety and keeps getting up to use the toilet. He must have gone 10 times so far. When you ask him if he is okay, he says, ‘Yes I’m fine’ and changes the subject. (Giuseppe goes to the doctor the next day – he has an enlarged prostate and was not able to urinate properly.) Why do you think that Giuseppe said he was ‘fine’ when he clearly wasn’t?

Scenario: A friend, Elisabetta, comes to visit Giuseppe. She comes to you after the visit and says ‘What’s wrong with Giuseppe? Does he have prostate cancer? What treatment is he having? How will you answer?