Medical insight, personal stories and humor from a urologist who has been where you are now.
The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here's the sad thing...I do a post for fun about bleeding scrotums and whadaya know? It's the number one viewed post. Go figure. Happy new year! Here's an excerpt: The Louvre Museum has 8.5 million visitors per year. This blog was viewed about …
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First off all...look at the sentence I highlighted in bold. Are you kidding me? Concerns about a CT scan and radiation all the while finding no complaints regarding treating the prostate cancer with radiation regardless if it's seeds, Proton, or external beam. The use of "misuse" is an attention getter is it not. We have known for years …
First of all, if he had any type of medical problem it would change his perspective on things. From a marketing standpoint, Sheen has been brilliant. Maybe he has been held back by the traditional roles and media (movies and tv) and has been yearning for something new. I understand he has sold out a …
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The PSA is variable when used in the diagnosis of prostate cancer. It can be low and someone have cancer, it can be high and not have cancer. It can go down with antibiotics and a person could still have cancer (this happened to me). So the use of the PSA in the diagnosis is …
Read the following report see what you think about the quotes and conclusions of Mr. Montgomery's surgery. I read for my wife the article and she asked, " So, he will never need another PSA will he? The doctor said he was cured right?" Report of Eddie Montgomery's Surgery and Prognosis
Why men won't have a rectal explained with humor in a cartoon. I have personally heard these examples from patients. What is interesting about this study is that: Older more educated men more likely to agree to get screened Younger and employed men are less likely Of the men who declined the rectal many would not …
A story about a missed prostate cancer diagnosis. Suspicious for but not diagnostic of prostate cancer. I've told patients for years that the diagnosis of prostate cancer is an easy one to make for the pathologist. It is probably the most common biopsy they get on a day to day basis. I refer to it as …
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The thing about this picture is that I had to pause and turn around to see it. I park in the visitors part on the third floor of this four floor deck, the top is the fourth. The first floor is for the physicians but its entrance more cumbersome to get to than the visitors and the physicians …
I started doing this blog thing about two months ago. Early on, I subscribed my daughter Bess to it without her knowledge or permission although afterwards she said she did not mind. Since then she will say in front of my wife that she saw the blog and the "neat" picture of penelope for that …
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Prostate Diaries 