Medical insight, personal stories and humor from a urologist who has been where you are now.
Life, Interrupted: Am I a Cancer Survivor? By SULEIKA JAOUAD Seamus McKiernan. It was the annual fund-raising event for the Hope Lodge, my temporary home after a bone marrow transplant. The host asked all the survivors to step forward from the crowd. I froze. I didn’t know if that word applied to me. What does …
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Okay then....who played the sax for the song? The song by the Beatles on the flip side of "Let it be" circa 1970 has always been a favorite of mine , but most likely most of you have never heard it and if you did and even if you claim to be a Beatle affectionado …
About the above picture...there is no way that Penelope could not be chosen for a calendar. Is she beautiful or what? Second opinion on a prostate biopsy to be sure that a positive finding is indeed prostate cancer? Been there done that? What I did was to ask for additional stains to prove it was …
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Little ole doctor in the mountains of North Georgia and look at the numbers and places folks who come to this site for information since Feb. 2012. I am so glad that Al Gore invented the internet! Country Views United States 34579 Canada 3542 United Kingdom 3433 Australia 1977 India 473 Ireland 273 Germany 225 …
Collectively we have five dogs and I sent in about 20 pictures in hopes that one would be chosen for the Hall County Humane Society's 2013 calendar. The way I sized it up they probably would not choose Penelope because she won in 2011. Then there was Bella and Brother both rescued dogs and each …
In the picture above we all have on our hiking gear and this is probably a shot just before locking the car and beginning the hike, when we thought we were really going to go hiking. All the shirts so nice and clean, the boots, sunglasses, camera, rain gear, socks and sock liners that wick...yes …
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When this all comes down what all the folks saying about doctors quitting is only partially true. It should be said that, "The doctors (me included) who can quit from a financial standpoint, will. How will ObamaCare affect prostate cancer screening? by Paul Hsieh, MD | When President Obama turned 50 last year, he made …
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Eugene, Oregon Prostate Cancer Survivor Story For about 15 or so years in late August I'd go out west to hike and fish with the fellows pictured above. The above picture is from the Golden Trout Wilderness in California but I want to tell you a bit our trip to Eugene, Oregon home of the …
I absolutely loved my sometimes imperfect mother. I don't care about this or that or stuff my father said as to why he divorced her and ran off with a "hussy" to Alaska as my grandmother described the situation. She smoked, quit college, joined the Coast Guard during WWII and then had five boys and …
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Just because a treatment of the prostate is fancy or new doesn't mean it's better. Just because the names are cool...."cyber knife" wow....and on and on....Don't feel like you have to "chase" the new treatments or the desire to "be one of the first ones done." I had a resident friend who would be asked …
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