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NEW ORLEANS -- Physicians remain frustrated, uncomfortable and insecure over the management of chronic prostatitis, and most agree current treatment is dismal. But a new focus on the problem may clear things up in the future, a Canadian doctor told the American Urological Association (AUA). Dr. J. Curtis Nickel, professor of urology at Queens University in Kingston, Ont., and a leading investigator in this field, said physicians "tend to throw anything that may have to do with the prostate -- and what we don't know -- into the category of prostatitis. I call it a wastebasket of clinical ignorance." His presentation of a national survey of 400 Canadian urologists confirmed that prostatitis is a very common complaint. An early look at data from a separate survey of family physicians is showing similar results. The survey found the median number of patients seen by urologists each month is 11, while the average was 21,...