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Stephen Petteruti

Stephen Petteruti

Dr. Stephen Petteruti, DO — board-certified osteopathic physician, men's health specialist, and founder of Intellectual Medicine, focused on integrative prostate cancer care.

Aug 12, 2026

4:08
you know.
4:08
I've done hundreds if not thousands of consults on men who saw a urologist because they had a high PSA.
4:16
They're robotic.
4:17
I mean, they're setting you up for that biopsy before you walk in the room.
4:21
So my approach, and it's outlined in my book, is never get a biopsy.
4:26
A biopsy is passe.
4:29
I don't think it helps make decisions about treatment for most men.

15 MINS LATER

19:19
right?
15:28
How did you start to focus on prostate? How did that become, was there one particular case and you started looking at this or just this handful of cases? What did that look like?
15:40
It was an evolutionary process that goes back to when I left to insurance-based medicine.
15:45
And Shannon is my wife and partner in business and life.
15:50
I'd come home from work, Chris, and I was miserable.
15:53
I'd see 30, 40 patients a day, you know, writing scripts as fast as I can, and I'm discouraged.
16:00
I'm not having the impact that I wish I could have.
16:03
I needed more time.

35 MINS LATER

50:38
yeah.

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