Chapter One - Meg By John McHugh Rob, a doctor, received a phone call at his office. It was his wife Karen. “Rob, I have decided to put Meg to sleep. The vet is coming at lunch to give the shot. If you want to be here, that’s when I am doing it. I cannot …
What does Newt Gingrich, Hillary, Orange Beach, The FloraBama, and Prostate Cancer have in common? Nothing, just something to get you to read this post!
I grew up in LaGrange, Georgia which is on the Alabama-Georgia line. West Georgia, Troup County, I went to LaGrange High School, the same school as my mother went to in the late 1930's. If you follow the Chattahoochee River (I once spent about 12 hours on an inner tube floating the river from Carrollton to LaGrange. I …
is there a difference in who does your rectal exam for the detection of prostate cancer? a prostate cartoon
One of my attendings when I was a resident in urology in Augusta, Georgia told me once,"Johnny, we urologists make the rectal an art form."Well I don't know about that, but we do perform a lot of rectal exams in the course of our career.I have said many times to patients that specialists are no smarter …
a partial truism applied with broad strokes resulting in bad decisions about prostate cancer treatment…
Guess what I have at the lake cabin now...a scanner...well what do you think? Clever huh? From "The Decision:Your prostate biopsy shows cancer. Now what?" The number one Kindle on Amazon.com for Prostate Cancer My mother loved to use old adages as aids to imparting advice as life’s learning experiences arose. Although “the pot …
three types of lies-lies, damned lies, and statistics…a paraPROSdokian and PROState cancer
Prostate Cancer and Male Sexuality- A Groundbreaking Survey by Dr. Jo-An Baldwin Peters
Right where I caught this fish at a cabin I have on the Chattahoochee River in Northeast Georgia, it's a shoal bass and what a joy to catch in the summer, is where Dr Peters visited me a year or so back. Fishing from a rock (shoal) no shirt on a beer near by and …
prostate cancer and root canals…it’s about using all the “ists” at your disposal.
So back to my tooth...the saga continues... several months pass and I go back to the original again because of a cracked temporary crown and in the process of fixing me a new temporary he notes that the bone structure above the tooth has not changed like one would expect if there was a deep enough crack to …
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prostate cancer decision making a lot like trying to save a tooth….use all the arrows in the quiver my friend!
So how is one of my back top left side tooth like prostate cancer decision-making? I crack , a small crack, a tooth eating ice about three years ago. I ignore the crack and slowly with each successive almond or cube of ice the crack gets bigger. The tooth now began to hurt with anything hard forcing me …
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