Medical insight, personal stories and humor from a urologist who has been where you are now.
What makes my book special ( I think ) is the attention that only a urologist who has been through the prostate cancer process and treatment could make of the voiding issues. That's what urologists do...we are human plumbers. We understand how men void, the difference between obstructive (slow stream) and irritative (frequency, urgency, getting …
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"John, don't let short-term gratification out weigh long-term gain." That's what my mother said to me many times and that is why I am a doctor. It is however not why I am a urologist. "Mom....this is John. I have decided to be a urologist." "Ye Gods John. Do you know what they do." Priceless and …
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From The Decision: a small amount of cancer got out of the prostate before the treatment got there, so it never really left at all. Patients often ask about the cancer coming back. If the prostate is removed and the cancer is already "silently" in a lymph node or just outside the prostate, then …
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This will probably be TMI (too much information) but I think it will make a point nicely. When I was a urology resident in 1983, my wife was pregnant with our second child Bess. As a medical student, I had done a rotation in Savannah, Ga in obstetrics. I must have delivered about twenty babies and …
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A guy goes to a urologist because of difficulty with sexual function. The urologist greets him and then escorts him to a room. " My nurse will be in, in a moment." The attractive and provocatively dressed nurse enters the exam room, undresses the patient and then "does things to him." "Wow" the patient says. …
I love the part about, " McHugh got the name of his surgeon from a traveling salesman." Too funny! Well, the book is about making a decision about what to do...not who will do it. It turns out my drug rep was right on. The US Review of Books // The Decision: Your prostate biopsy shows cancer... …
Northeast Georgia Urological Associates Vasectomy Page This has nothing to do with prostate cancer. I have been using the Madajet Technology to perform no needle vasectomies and it has made a difference on several fronts. I just thought it might be interesting to you " needle phobic " men out there.
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