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.
The Tincture of Time
Knowing when to do nothing and let nature have its way...is wisdom. If you have had radiation for prostate cancer, and are having problems voiding and a doctor recommends cutting something...you may want to consider the tincture of time instead of chancing curing by cutting. The prostate after radiation ain't the prostate you used to …
Urological Wit and Wisdom: Chapter 14-Do you have a ruler?
Urologists tend to have an odd sense of humor compared to other surgeons. http://prostatediaries.podbean.com/mf/web/rd8yeh/chapter14Iwantaruler.mp3
Urological Wit and Wisdom: Chapter 6-No good deed goes unpunished.
If you go out of your way to help someone and the effort falls short they will remember the latter and not the former. http://prostatediaries.podbean.com/mf/web/xykh4e/Witandwisdomchapter6-Nogooddeedgoesunpunished.mp3
Aphorisms and prostate cancer
Getting a patient to a decision is equally as difficult for the educated as for the unsophisticated: The latter has trouble understanding and the former think they know too much to listen.
Incrementalism, pigs and doctors
No. 123 Doctors, Pigs, and Incrementalism incrementalism (noun): A policy or advocacy of a policy of political or social change by degrees: gradualism. I was thinking about all of the intrusions into the lives and the profession of physicians by the government, insurance companies and hospitals and this joke came to mind. Most everything reminds …
The Cloths of the Easter Cross-Did You Know This?
The Cloths of the Easter Mocking Cross in Stained Glass
Mr. Tomanek, perspective, prostate cancer and trains…
This is an excerpt of a book I am writing-101 Aphorisms, Adages and Illustrations for the Urological Resident- See what you think. I remember Mr. Tomanek for many reasons but for two in particular. He loved trains. He lived in the mountains just south of Helen, Georgia and built a garage specifically for his …
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Considering a Prostatectomy? Ask about bladder neck contractures (stricture) and how often it occurs..
You Don’t Cure Strictures…You Manage Them I have always enjoyed pretending to talk about something completely ridiculous, but in a serious tone, in front of strangers. In fact, on my first trip in an airplane to Washington D.C. for a Key Club convention, the friend I went with told me, “John, if don’t start acting …
Is a word to the wise sufficient… in prostate cancer decision making?
A Word to the Wise… Ken Dixon’s father was one of the first surgeons of Hall County, Georgia and as a result Ken is an encyclopedia of medical stories. I did not realize until I began this book that most of Ken’s stories involve people who are “characters.” Recently he was telling me about a …
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Prostate Diaries 