Medical insight, personal stories and humor from a urologist who has been where you are now.
A bald patient of mine a few weeks ago told me, " I don't waste my testosterone on hair!" Do bald men face higher risk of prostate cancer? Updated: May 22, 2012 3:01 PM EDT © iStockphoto.com By Barbara Bronson Gray HealthDay ReporterTUESDAY, May 22 (HealthDay News) -- Got hair? If you don't, you …
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My dear buddy Jo An Baldwin Peters made a comment on one of the posts yesterday and mentioned that her husband needed a MRI. They live in Canada and she related that the MRI had been scheduled some time in 2013. She mentioned, "Wait until the U.S. gets health care." I mention this to say …
https://theprostatedecision.wordpress.com/2011/03/28/the-lockerbie-bomber-gaddafi-oil-hillary-and-obama-and-what-prostate-cancer/ https://theprostatedecision.wordpress.com/2010/12/09/bp-oil-spill-orange-beach-alabama-prostate-cancer-and-the-lockerbie-bomber/ Second Al Megrahi prostate cancer drug 'too expensive' for NHS PROSTATE cancer patients are to be denied a life-extending drug used to treat Abdelbaset Also Mohmed Al Megrahi, the Lockerbie bomber. NHS patients are being denied two new prostate cancer drugs reportedly taken by Lockerbie bomber Al Megrahi Photo: REUTERS By Stephen Adams, Medical Correspondent …
I asked some female nurses who I work with in my amubulatory surgery center what exactly the term "my wife keeps me grounded" means? One lady said that when her husband started talking about all the things he was going to do or get she has to remind him that, " honey, we need to …
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Two days after I had my prostate removed....the five year anniversary is today(I think) my wife and I set off to the condo on Orange Beach, Alabama. In a way it is a blessing and a curse we did that. I have horrible memories of the time that I remember every time we go there …
Okay so a high-ranking official in the Coast Guard is found to have cancer and has plans to have surgery at Bethesda Hospital. I don't know this but they probably don't do the robotic method there...that's just a side note...it is of no consequence. It is still news, somehow and some way famous people who …
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A couple of things about my deceased brother Rushton. First of all of my four brothers he was always the kindest to me. Jeff my youngest brother doesn't count...as mother said he was "the baby." Rushton always chose me to be on his team in football...he could throw and I could catch and we were deadly, …
When you think about it there are only about two things you can do to treat prostate cancer. You can take the prostate and the cancer within out You can treat the prostate with some form of energy If you take it out you can do it by hand (open) or use laparoscopic instruments with …
One of my favorite topics in a little Sunday School class I have taught for 20 or so years is circumcision. Why? Well, Paul had quite the time convincing the gentiles to go along with being a follower of Jesus if it meant fulfilling the Jewish covenant of circumcision. Remember the Jews had the circumcision on …
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Chapter Four-No collar disappearances-the worst kind Over the subsequent years there were several close calls in which John and Karen almost lost Chloe for good. Each time it was a happenchance occurrence in which her collar was not on and there was either a storm or a loud noise. For instance, one “no- collar” …
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