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Aphorisms and prostate cancer
Getting a patient to a decision is equally as difficult for the educated as for the unsophisticated: The latter has trouble understanding and the former think they know too much to listen.
Incrementalism, pigs and doctors
No. 123 Doctors, Pigs, and Incrementalism incrementalism (noun): A policy or advocacy of a policy of political or social change by degrees: gradualism. I was thinking about all of the intrusions into the lives and the profession of physicians by the government, insurance companies and hospitals and this joke came to mind. Most everything reminds …
The Cloths of the Easter Cross-Did You Know This?
The Cloths of the Easter Mocking Cross in Stained Glass
Mr. Tomanek, perspective, prostate cancer and trains…
This is an excerpt of a book I am writing-101 Aphorisms, Adages and Illustrations for the Urological Resident- See what you think. I remember Mr. Tomanek for many reasons but for two in particular. He loved trains. He lived in the mountains just south of Helen, Georgia and built a garage specifically for his …
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Considering a Prostatectomy? Ask about bladder neck contractures (stricture) and how often it occurs..
You Don’t Cure Strictures…You Manage Them I have always enjoyed pretending to talk about something completely ridiculous, but in a serious tone, in front of strangers. In fact, on my first trip in an airplane to Washington D.C. for a Key Club convention, the friend I went with told me, “John, if don’t start acting …
Has Christmas Changed…or Have You?
For many years I have compiled a CD of interesting renditions of Christmas standards. Each year I do a song and hide it into the twenty or songs on the CD. This is my submission and rendition of a song for this year's CD with a little help from Audacity. Not a bad message BTW. …
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After the prostate biopsy
After the biopsy.
Who regrets prostate cancer treatment decision more-the radiation or the surgery patient?
I think there are some pretty unhappy and angry people on both sides. If you got the "rare complication" of either treatment you wish you'd done the other! If you do bad with surgery you blame the urologist. If you do bad with the radiation you blame the radiation. Big difference.😳
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