Medical insight, personal stories and humor from a urologist who has been where you are now.
The picture above is actually fascinating. Today at the lake I was in command of all the five dogs...Bella, Brother, Penelope, and the evil twins Big Baby Girl and Little Longfellow. So for some reason the bass of Lake Lanier in the cove of our little cabin are poppin right now. I can on any given …
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My Dog Calendar for 2012 Don't buy it...just click the preview button. I bet you'll see a dog or two you recognize. Since my book has been written I see a lot of patients who show up for a second opinion. I get to hear first hand the impressions made by the original urologist. Sometimes it's …
Just a stone's throw from my office is the Hall County YMCA. My office manager is a spin instructor and doing spin is a bit of a craze these days and reportedly has the most calories expended per time spent spinning. The deal is you can sit or stand with any combination of increasing the …
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Is Penelope pretty or what? I could kiss herrrrrrrrrrr! Eight inches of saliva and a stick...it don't get no better than this. Once again my wife is the star and orator of wisdom... The local paper did this article on my book and the ProstateMd app this past Sunday. So what is it that everybody …
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A question (slightly amended for privacy) from a message board. I am so happy to report that my husband's bone scan, x-ray and cat scan all came back negative and the doctor feels the cancer is contained to him prostate. I understand it could actually be a bit outside which won't show up on any …
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If it's true for baseball can it be true for cancer? I have a friend who feels he is divorced today because his wife could not handle the ramifications of the treatment of prostate cancer particularly the recovery to potency or lack thereof. He felt she felt he was "damaged goods." When I learned I …
This may surprise you but the patient drives the decision-making process. I can tell you there are patients who "want it out" from the get go and others that from the get go are suspicious of doctors and surgery and opt for surveillance. This article and others paint the male patient as a dumb malleable creature …
Ross commented on How I as a urologist made my "Decision." As I work my way through the treatment decision, I find myself gravitating to either Proton Radiation Treatment or HIFU - high frequency focused ultrasound but I am surprised that you make no mention of either of these options. My post on HIFU The …
Prostatediaries on Twitter Do you know what TwitterFeed is? Well, I figured it out. You take every news service on the internet that has both a RSS feed and has a feed dedicated you prostate cancer and....viola! They are all automatically feed into your Twitter account. Daily I am amazed at what I learn from …
So this is what it has come to. Patients are not smart enough not to "fall" for being treated for prostate cancer. So let's change the name. One way or the other the NIH, the HHS, the USTFPF (or whatever) will figure out a way not to pay for prostate cancer screening. They are a clever bunch. And who …
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