Summer is a good time to be a urologist in Georgia. Here's how it goes. An older patient comes in and has a tan. I ask, " How is your garden this year?" The response, " The tomatoes are just coming in." I say," I'll do half the work. You grow them and I'll help …
Who is a survivor and what exactly is battling prostate cancer?
Life, Interrupted: Am I a Cancer Survivor? By SULEIKA JAOUAD Seamus McKiernan. It was the annual fund-raising event for the Hope Lodge, my temporary home after a bone marrow transplant. The host asked all the survivors to step forward from the crowd. I froze. I didn’t know if that word applied to me. What does …
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What song is on the flip side of the Beatles “Let it be?” Prostate cancer blog wants to know the name.
Okay then....who played the sax for the song? The song by the Beatles on the flip side of "Let it be" circa 1970 has always been a favorite of mine , but most likely most of you have never heard it and if you did and even if you claim to be a Beatle affectionado …
Prostate Cancer: Do you need to have a second opinion…on the biopsy path report?
About the above picture...there is no way that Penelope could not be chosen for a calendar. Is she beautiful or what? Second opinion on a prostate biopsy to be sure that a positive finding is indeed prostate cancer? Been there done that? What I did was to ask for additional stains to prove it was …
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most common cancer other than skin? prostate cancer blog by northeast georgia urologist approaching 200,000 views.
Little ole doctor in the mountains of North Georgia and look at the numbers and places folks who come to this site for information since Feb. 2012. I am so glad that Al Gore invented the internet! Country Views United States 34579 Canada 3542 United Kingdom 3433 Australia 1977 India 473 Ireland 273 Germany 225 …
Big Baby Girl selected for Hall County Georgia 2013 Calendar-Louis Prima and what? Prostate cancer.
Collectively we have five dogs and I sent in about 20 pictures in hopes that one would be chosen for the Hall County Humane Society's 2013 calendar. The way I sized it up they probably would not choose Penelope because she won in 2011. Then there was Bella and Brother both rescued dogs and each …
Fifty shades of grey…I mean prostate cancer
I hope you'll find the list below helpful. These are the most common search terms that end up on this site. It gives you some insight as to what's on folk's minds. Far and a way the winner here and each day is prostate nodule followed by prostate pain. My guess is that the man …
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Hot tubs linked to prostate cancer…well everything else is!
In the picture above we all have on our hiking gear and this is probably a shot just before locking the car and beginning the hike, when we thought we were really going to go hiking. All the shirts so nice and clean, the boots, sunglasses, camera, rain gear, socks and sock liners that wick...yes …
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Eugene, Ore and the Umpqua river part two- Prostate cancer the Rodney Dangerfield of organs-Why? the PSA.
So when we left off we were looking at a map and on one side of the river is a road and on the other a red dotted line indicating a hiking trail. The impression was that the red line was far enough from the road line that the group would have it both ways, …
Obamacare and prostate cancer-The USPSTF…meet your new urologist.
When this all comes down what all the folks saying about doctors quitting is only partially true. It should be said that, "The doctors (me included) who can quit from a financial standpoint, will. How will ObamaCare affect prostate cancer screening? by Paul Hsieh, MD | When President Obama turned 50 last year, he made …
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