Medical insight, personal stories and humor from a urologist who has been where you are now.
It has been about five years since "The Decision" has been published. I am working, minimally I might add, on the next edition. Minimally because very little has changed in the decision process. Yes there are new treatments, the robotic removal is performed better with less problems by more experienced urologists, but this fact remains. …
Continue reading "The more things change about prostate cancer …the more they stay the same."
As the course of water changes over the changed landscape with time, so too should you and strive to embrace change. Insanity: Doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.-Einstein http://prostatediaries.podbean.com/mf/web/qpemdr/chapter32treatmentwhichmonth.mp3
A patient can have fleas and ticks at the same time.- Osler http://prostatediaries.podbean.com/mf/web/di34yu/chapter31-Twodifferentdiseasescan.mp3
Why would you remove the prostate for prostate cancer and why did Robert E. Lee attack up hill at Gettysburg by a frontal assault? And why did Will Sutton rob banks? Well...that's where the cancer is, that's where the enemy is and that is where the money is. http://prostatediaries.podbean.com/mf/web/henku9/chapter29gowherethemoneyis.mp3
It is much more likely that there is only disease going on at a time. http://prostatediaries.podbean.com/mf/web/pdz65e/chapter26trytoexplain.mp3
Not all referring physicians are created equal!
Funny thing, even though the prostate nodule is the thing that urologists are checking for with a rectal exam...the most common rectal finding in the man who has prostate cancer is a normal feeling gland. With the advent of the PSA prostate cancers are being found before the gland has a palpable finding. A nodule …
Things are not always as they appear. "A man should always be in love. That is why he should never marry."- Oscar Wilde http://prostatediaries.podbean.com/mf/web/ib2kaf/Chapter19Dotingwife.mp3 Warranty of a penile prosthesis? Five years or 50,000 strokes.
People do what works. Who are we to judge? http://prostatediaries.podbean.com/mf/web/ib2kaf/Chapter19Dotingwife.mp3
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