Medical insight, personal stories and humor from a urologist who has been where you are now.
Just before this article there was one on fried foods, then eating walnuts and then and then and then and then...... Let's spend $100,000 on masturbation and prostate cancer and oh by the way defund paying for PSA's-it's not cost effective. Prostate Cancer Progression May Be Prevented By A High Fiber Diet 11 Jan …
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Well that depends on the definition of most is? Does 30,000 seem like a small number to you? Prostate cancer is mostly slow growing. Yes. Prostate cancer usually affects the old. Yes. Most people die with it instead of - of it. Yes. Do young people die of it? Yes. Are men diagnosed young and …
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 …
Question: I am 4 weeks past robotic radical prostatectomy and 2.5 weeks after catheter removal. I do not have any urge to urinate. The only urine stream I get is after lying down and then the stream is only 1-2 seconds in duration. However, I have constant leakage throughout the day/night and must change …
Continued from the place on my face removed, retrieved from the trash, found put in formalin and then in my pocket and then to the 1994 car with old as hell tires to find that one is flat. It is a humid but not overly hot early September day in North Georgia. Without missing a …
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Summer is a good time to be a urologist in Georgia. Here's how it goes. An older patient comes in and has a tan. I ask, " How is your garden this year?" The response, " The tomatoes are just coming in." I say," I'll do half the work. You grow them and I'll help …
Okay then....who played the sax for the song? The song by the Beatles on the flip side of "Let it be" circa 1970 has always been a favorite of mine , but most likely most of you have never heard it and if you did and even if you claim to be a Beatle affectionado …
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