Medical insight, personal stories and humor from a urologist who has been where you are now.
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” …
I got a big kick out of this article about the Proton therapy machine and its application to prostate cancer. First of all it is informative and several doctors of various persuasion are interviewed: We learn that it is a very expensive machine to purchase. It takes a very large building to house it. …
And in due time Hannah conceived and bore a son and she called his name Samuel, for she said, “I have asked for him from the Lord.” 1 Samuel 1: 20 Chapter Three-Chloe has layers Chloe quickly became an integral part of her new “finders” family. As time went on, several interesting things became apparent …
The picture above is an Alden rowing skull. Have you ever rowed? Well I love the water, I like to exercise so several years ago I bought this "row boat" and I have had it out at the lake ever since. When I had the dock (a 1950's era quonset hut model) updated I had …
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Chapter Two-A dog shows up at the lake "Chloe's Gift" by John McHugh (Changed Rob to John) John and Karen had two other dogs, Oscar and Tootsie, both of whom they loved dearly, but there was an emptiness around their home without Meg. The couple felt her memory and presence everywhere in and about the …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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