A song and movie staring Penelope and a cameo by Tootsie and Brother! Merry Christmas!
Top Prostate Cancer Question on Prostate Diaries-The Blog and Podbean Podcast: The Prostate Nodule
Funny thing, even though the prostate nodule is the thing that urologists are checking for with a rectal exam...the most common rectal finding in the man who has prostate cancer is a normal feeling gland. With the advent of the PSA prostate cancers are being found before the gland has a palpable finding. A nodule …
Aphorisms and prostate cancer
Getting a patient to a decision is equally as difficult for the educated as for the unsophisticated: The latter has trouble understanding and the former think they know too much to listen.
Incrementalism, pigs and doctors
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 …
Mr. Tomanek, perspective, prostate cancer and trains…
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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Considering a Prostatectomy? Ask about bladder neck contractures (stricture) and how often it occurs..
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 …
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My biopsy experience Home page / Archives 26,127 the dreaded prostate biopsy revealed 10,367 holy bloody mess batman!….the bleeding scrotum capo…i mean caper…tmi? 10,152 When is a prostate nodule a nodule and do nodules always mean prostate cancer? 9,017 My bladder spasm experience 3,630 Five men-Five stories-Five deicisions about what to do about one’s prostate …
Trouble voiding after radiation for prostate cancer? Proceed with caution!
Tissue don't heal well if you go a cuttin on it after radiation. Think incontinence and scarring if you do a procedure on a prostate that has been treated with seeds or external beam radiation. You can fix obstructive voiding symptoms before radiation by conventional methods but after radiation treatment is fraught with complications. It …
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