Medical insight, personal stories and humor from a urologist who has been where you are now.
In my book I mention that a second opinion is a good idea once the urologist tells you that you have prostate cancer. I add that it is probably best to get a second opinion with a radiation therapist, i.e you already have spoken with a urologist. Well...one of the things that happens now on …
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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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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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Good Day to you Dr John – you have the best worlds – Fishing (I love it too) Dogs, old cars, a good wife, Canning and Humor! Today my husband went and had his PSA, and Tersterone levels drawn for his appointment with his urologist next Wednesday the 10th, I haven’t commented on last month’s …
A little lady in her 70's did this for me...look familiar?
All you'd ever want to know about Active Surveillance of prostate cancer.
I spoke yesterday in Helen, Ga on the prayer of Jonah. What? The Chattahoochee Methodist Church- "I'd Climb The Highest Mountain" was filmed there in 1951. The church was established in 1860. Remember Tarshish? Piqued your interest? Try Chapter 9 "The Sermon" from Moby Dick. Jonah's Prayer 2 Then Jonah prayed to the Lord his …
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