Happy Birthday Sammy

A rite of passage in scouting and being an Eagle scout is the two week experience of Philmont in Cimarron, New Mexico. It is supposed to be a grueling and yes intimidating hiking trip through the various landscapes of New Mexico. You have heard of Phillips 66 haven't you and the song "Route  66" well …

Thirty four years ago this month…amazing. I wish I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then.

In June 1981 my wife and I and our 4 month old baby boy went on a cross country camping trip to California and back. I had just completed medical school and we were living off student loans and Karen's teacher's salary. She was breast feeding and we pulled a Coleman pop up camper  with …

The more things change about prostate cancer …the more they stay the same.

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. …