Medical insight, personal stories and humor from a urologist who has been where you are now.
I was about four months out from having my prostate removed and sitting on my front porch sipping a beer when my wife came home from "spin." I have cycled all my life but I thought when people did "spin" they were doing some acrobatic exercise. My wife, who is quite the exercise enthusiast, approached …
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I think this is a very good public service by CBS. It is all about early detection and awareness. I do believe a big part of this is the " proactive prostate wife." Save your husband and his prostate. That's good.
We can prevent what happened her husband and prostate cancer awareness and yearly exams are the key.
Patients do say, " I am going to have a robot do it." That's funny. The misconceptions about what the " robot " can do are no different from the misconceptions men have about rectal exams and the natural course of the disease concerning prostate cancer. Someone is running the robot and ... " a …
Celebrity Prostate Exams Too Much Reality TV? Brad Garrett Will Get a Prostate Exam on TV, but Doctors Wonder If It Will Help Cancer Awareness By LAUREN COX ABC News Medical Unit Sept. 4, 2008— Forget strapping on a plastic wristband or plastering a ribbon sticker on his car. Actor Brad Garrett of "Everybody Loves …
Youtube Prostate knowledge through humor A physician friend called me about an issue with a patient of his this past week. I answered his questions and I then asked, " How is your PSA?" " John, it's been about four years since I have had that or a rectal exam." I said, "Do me a …
From the "Decision"- The perfect storm. "So the perfect storm: common misconceptions that give men a false sense of security, an exam they do not want to have done, and the resultant flawed rationalization to skip a prostate evaluation. All of these factors contribute to missed opportunities for early detection."
two paths but only one traveler can you be- with prostate cancer treatment decisions you have to do your homework, know your disease and make a decision. once you have "traveled down that road" of the prostate cancer decision, you can't go back. that's why its such a hard decision. in the last stanza " …
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I know you've read the poem, " the road not taken" my mother referred to it as the road "less traveled" and that is the problem with the common interpretation. It is more complicated than you would think and may have a different meaning than you thought. It also has a prostate cancer decision implication. …
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Photo by Consuelo Kanaga Langston Hughes James Langston Hughes was born February 1, 1902, in Joplin, Missouri. His parents divorced when he was a small child, and his father moved to Mexico. He was raised by his grandmother until he was thirteen, when he moved to Lincoln, Illinois, to live with his mother and her …
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