Medical insight, personal stories and humor from a urologist who has been where you are now.
Okay you know I do the prostate thing and in fact it happens daily that I see someone in my office who comes specifically to me for advice about prostate cancer diagnosed by another doctor. These patients like their urologist...they just want the perspective of someone who treats prostate cancer and has been through it himself. I …
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One of the biggest complaints that I hear from patients is they were not told how things would be. So....here is your forum....250,000 men are diagnosed with prostate cancer a year....that represents 17-20 % of the men that had either an abnormal rectal exam or an elevated psa. So....tell us your story and let's make …
Go to the app store and search prostatemd and viola you can put this app on your phone for free. So why would one do that you might ask? It has a newsfeed for all news prostate cancer updated daily. All the Twitter posts are available. All the illustrations from "The Decision" with a brief …
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I have read the Kerouac, well about half of it, about him bumming around across America. I did not really think that it was that "transformational" for me and I guess that is why I just read half. But I must say this little piece from "The Beat Generation" I though was very good and …
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Years ago I was an assistant scout master in my son's troop here in Gainesville, Ga. Sam ultimately did achieve his Eagle Scout and as the Grateful Dead said, " what a long strange trip it had been." So to better my ability to help the troop and my son, I agreed to take a …
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So I have told you about the kennel that was on the highway between Smyrna and Atlanta and that I had a Jimi Hendrix album "Bold as Love" and that I listened to them over and over and that I was in the seventh grade. I had this particular album because for whatever reason Rushton …
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When my mother and father were divorced we lived in Smyrna, Georgia. The courts decided my mother was unfit and I was sentenced to live with the lesser of the two "unfits" in a house that had been converted into a dog kennel and then back into a business. My little brother's room and my …
Did I treat you fairly? (From "The Decision") When I was a freshman at North Georgia College in the spring of 1974, I had this plastic football with a screw-off top that could hold about a quart of my favorite liquid. Other than the fact that it was plastic, one might never know its true …
So I am telling the nurses at my Ambulatory Surgery Center that because of the all the time it takes to do Electronic Medical Records (EMR) that I had to enter data at the lake when I go out there. Whereas I used to come out here and just mess around cutting grass and throwing …
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