Medical insight, personal stories and humor from a urologist who has been where you are now.
Do you know what a " throck-morton" is in urology? Just for fun, those of you having to visit your urologist for prostate cancer concern, ask your urologist what it is? I bet he knows, it is well-known phrase in urologic circles. A KUB x-ray (Kidney Ureter Bladder) is commonly done by urologists looking for …
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Meaning of song The lyrics tell of the last days of the American Civil War and its aftermath. Confederate soldier Virgil Caine "served on the Danville train," the main supply line into the Confederate capital of Richmond, Virginia. General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia is holding the line at the Siege of Petersburg. …
I have previously posted Mr. Jennings on a link but did not see this video untill this morning. I am watching it and it's going along and I am really enjoying it and really like this person. The part about getting a buzz-cut and then it makes him feel like, " I'm putting on a …
The names of bands influenced by Johnny Ramone, look at them, and then the fact that Romone was a pseudonym for Paul McCartney is something I did not know. Here's the tragedy... He was diagnosed late. What I see happening often with my patients and in casual conversation with others, men and women, is that …
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In my practice the most common pelvic cancer that I see in patients treated with radiation is bladder cancer. A caveat: would these patients have gotten bladder cancer anyway?, this study looked at radiation after surgery had essentially failed to do the job, and I am not saying this is a reason not to choose …
Prostate Cancer Goes to Washington PCF Hosts Discussion on Capitol Hill about the PSA TestA flurry of confusing research about the benefits of PSA testing has left many men and their physicians reticent to use a test that may be life-saving, says a panel of prostate cancer experts. The experts who gathered on Capitol Hill in …
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Prostate cancer op ruins Andrew Lloyd Webber’s sex life By ANIMarch 16th, 2010 LONDON - Music composer Andrew Lloyd Webber has revealed that his sex drive has been affected after prostate cancer treatment. The 61-year-old ‘Love Never Dies’ composer, who has been married thrice, underwent a surgery to fight the disease. “Sex drive does take …
Richard Pryor had skit one time about one of his characters that could not tell a joke. It went something like, "there were three dudes. No two dudes. No three, no two dudes and nun. That's it, two dudes and a nun. " Then Pryor would say," Leroy could not tell a joke" Well I …
New Zealand is a favorite post-urologic residency destination. They have a very good urologic medical community and I have two friends that did a fellowship there. That Mr. Tucker speaks of being sexually active after a prostatectomy bespeaks of the folks over there performing a prostatectomy the right way ( I also noted the length …
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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