Medical insight, personal stories and humor from a urologist who has been where you are now.
Just a stone's throw from my office is the Hall County YMCA. My office manager is a spin instructor and doing spin is a bit of a craze these days and reportedly has the most calories expended per time spent spinning. The deal is you can sit or stand with any combination of increasing the …
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So I am out at the lake with my dogs and my daughter's dog Brother and my wife has just left after we had the most delightful time eating Blimpie's stuff and letting the dogs run along the shore of Lake Lanier because it is down so much because we feed Atlanta and Alabama at …
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Is Penelope pretty or what? I could kiss herrrrrrrrrrr! Eight inches of saliva and a stick...it don't get no better than this. Once again my wife is the star and orator of wisdom... The local paper did this article on my book and the ProstateMd app this past Sunday. So what is it that everybody …
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A question (slightly amended for privacy) from a message board. I am so happy to report that my husband's bone scan, x-ray and cat scan all came back negative and the doctor feels the cancer is contained to him prostate. I understand it could actually be a bit outside which won't show up on any …
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Did you know this was the first music video played on MTV? Some thought went into it and it was the logical choice. So now about my ipad. I bought my wife an ipad for her birthday...that was D-Day...this past June 6th. If you have bought and read my book, some know it as E-Day. …
If it's true for baseball can it be true for cancer? I have a friend who feels he is divorced today because his wife could not handle the ramifications of the treatment of prostate cancer particularly the recovery to potency or lack thereof. He felt she felt he was "damaged goods." When I learned I …
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here's the sad thing...I do a post for fun about bleeding scrotums and whadaya know? It's the number one viewed post. Go figure. Happy new year! Here's an excerpt: The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about …
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This may surprise you but the patient drives the decision-making process. I can tell you there are patients who "want it out" from the get go and others that from the get go are suspicious of doctors and surgery and opt for surveillance. This article and others paint the male patient as a dumb malleable creature …
Ross commented on How I as a urologist made my "Decision." As I work my way through the treatment decision, I find myself gravitating to either Proton Radiation Treatment or HIFU - high frequency focused ultrasound but I am surprised that you make no mention of either of these options. My post on HIFU The …
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