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 …
Urological Humor: The Doting Wife
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.
Urological Wit and Wisdom: Chapter 19-The Doting Wife
People do what works. Who are we to judge? http://prostatediaries.podbean.com/mf/web/ib2kaf/Chapter19Dotingwife.mp3
Urological Wit and Wisdom: Chapter 15-Tomorrow has its own problems.
I'll gladly pay you Tuesday for a hamburger today! http://prostatediaries.podbean.com/mf/web/uhw9r6/chapter15whyputoffuntill.mp3
The Power of I Don’t Know- Urological Wit and Wisdom Chapter 10
It is okay to just say, "I don't know." http://prostatediaries.podbean.com/mf/web/tysfx4/chapter10Idontknow.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
Urological Wit and Wisdom: God Must Have Been a Urologist
Why don't all medical students want to be a urologist? http://prostatediaries.podbean.com/mf/web/6r74zc/ChapterThree-GodMustHaveBeenaUrologist.mp3 Urological Wit and Wisdom on Amazon.com
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.
Cocaine and urology
From "101 Aphorisms, adages, and illustrations for the urological resident and nascent physician." 109. The Only Thing E.N.T. Has over Urology is Cocaine One day in the urology clinic the intern I have previously mentioned in this book (the one that told the BS-ing older patient that he should treat his impotence by abstaining …
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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