The things people search for (it is often a question that comes up "after" they have been diagnosed or treated for prostate cancer) that got them to this blog. This also provides for me a subject matter or topic for that day's post. "Like taking candy from a baby." Thanks to all for your …
CNN and Vasectomy March Madness at Northeast Georgia Urological Associates Gainesville, Georgia.
CNN visits Dr. John McHugh's Urology practice for a Health Minute on March Madness and Vasectomies. The scene with the patient pretending that he is hurting actually occured minutes after the vasectomy. Vasectomies are customarily performed on a Friday so that the patient has the weekend to recover prior to returning to work on Monday. …
the art of “getting away with it”, prostate cancer and Lorenzo Q. Squarf (you couldn’t pay to have a name like that!)
The "art of getting away with it" is a favorite medical saying of mine. If I remove a ureteral stone and don't place a stent and risk extravasation of urine into the patient's retroperitoneum and the patient does just fine....what does that mean? Does it mean that I was brilliant, used seasoned medical judgement, or …
Flooding around my catheter, blood around my catheter after a radical prostatectomy for prostate cancer
When the prostate is removed the surgeon has to put the bladder back together with the urethra. A catheter is placed to "stent" this area of the anastomosis. The reason a catheter is used and left in from 6-14 days is to allow time for this area to heal. In doing so keeping urine from …
Question: Urine leaks around catheter after prostatectomy. Is this normal?
When the prostate is removed, the bladder is separated from the urethra (the tube that runs through the penis which men void through). After the prostate is out, the doctor then sews the two areas back together. It takes about 7-10 days for this to heal. A catheter is placed through the tip of the penis in …
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Bp oil spill, orange beach alabama, prostate cancer and the lockerbie bomber
The intrigue involved with the Lockerbie bomber has been addressed on this blog before. There are now reports that he is near death. What I don't understand is why it was important that Gaddafi wanted him back so badly. If he is indeed dying then the doctors that made the pronouncement that his death was …
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Surgery or radiation for prostate cancer?
The following was copied from a post on the American Cancer Society's Survivor Network. There are numerous lay members of these message boards that have been through the process and very conscientiously help other newly diagnosed cancer patients. If you have not visited a message board you should. You will be surprised by the candid dialogue …
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Prostate Cancer 70% lifestyle?
Since I have written the book I have perused the internet more often for prostate related news. I started this blog, I subscribe to RSS feeds that deal with prostate cancer news, and I search Twitter from time to time about Tweets related to the same. There is a consistent pattern of about three issues …
For humor to be effective there must be an element of truth. That the family guy “prostate” episodes are funny shows that men in general would rather not have the prostate exam. This “rectal refusal syndrom” plays a role in delaying the diagnosis of prostate cancer.
Family guy sues doctor for rectal exam. Violated! The reason the above resonates as funny is that many men really feel this way about a doctor doing the prostate exam. This in turn leads to attempts at early detection being thwarted. You hear about a famous person being " stricken" with terminal prostate cancer almost …
One more story about my mother….nothing to do with prostate cancer and by the way I still want to be on Colbert-Help!
Ten reason why I should be on the Colbert Report Let’s go flying Will Will Rogers-One of my heroes Wiley Post Several years ago I had the idea that it would be neat to visit my mother on mother’s day by plane. I have a friend who is an ophthalmologist, a pilot and owns a …
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