Medical insight, personal stories and humor from a urologist who has been where you are now.
If you have had a MRI would you comment for me on how much it cost…both the procedure and the radiologist reading it. Don’t get me wrong. I think the MRI will be very helpful for all…but weren’t we just talking about costs of psa, biopsies, treatment, etc and etc. Where is the outrage? USPSTF …
No. 123 Doctors, Pigs, and Incrementalism incrementalism (noun): A policy or advocacy of a policy of political or social change by degrees: gradualism. I was thinking about all of the intrusions into the lives and the profession of physicians by the government, insurance companies and hospitals and this joke came to mind. Most everything reminds …
This is an excerpt of a book I am writing-101 Aphorisms, Adages and Illustrations for the Urological Resident- See what you think. I remember Mr. Tomanek for many reasons but for two in particular. He loved trains. He lived in the mountains just south of Helen, Georgia and built a garage specifically for his …
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You Don’t Cure Strictures…You Manage Them I have always enjoyed pretending to talk about something completely ridiculous, but in a serious tone, in front of strangers. In fact, on my first trip in an airplane to Washington D.C. for a Key Club convention, the friend I went with told me, “John, if don’t start acting …
Penelope decided to take matters into her own hands. She got the stick, scooted it up the dock gang plank, put it in the water herself and then completed the task by taking it to shore. She's in complete control. At the end of the day what you decide to do about your prostate cancer …
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I did everything he did but backwards and in high heels. Ginger Rogers You are welcome!!
What band and what album...Rolling Stone Magazine....the number one album of all time. This van thing and the "get a new car dad" thing is getting to be a bit much. A new Ford F150 is about 32,000 and a used car comes with as they say, "someone else's problems." I can get the POS …
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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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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