The decision of the USPTF (or whatever the hell the letters of this little government group of nonclinical doctors who will decide who will get treatment for prostate cancer-it is not going to be good my friend) in saying that the government will not pay for a prostate cancer screening and PSA's is a slap …
Happy Birthday Jennie Cooper! The photo of The Beatles crossing Abbey Road taken on August 8th 1969. No Beatle has prostate cancer…yet.
Abbey Road Live Cam-I am mesmerized by this. My wife and our three children were visiting my mother and grandmother one holiday at my childhood home at 103 N. Lewis St. in LaGrange, Georgia when the children were young. The house is one block off the square in LaGrange, across the street from the …
My protective love of tomatoes must have been overcome by my love of southern sweet tea: result prostate cancer.
So I am camping with my son's scout group and a father I was assigned to be in the same tent tells me that he loves sweet tea. "Is that so?" I ask. "Yes, love it. I have it everyday for lunch no matter where I am," he says. He tells me he was a …
two kinds of prostate cancer: the good kind and the bad kind – the john mchugh kind and the frank zappa kind-Provenge anyone?
"That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore" Park the car at the side of the road you should know time's tide will smother you and I will too when you laugh about people who feel so very lonely their only desire is to die well I'm afraid it doesn't make me smile I wish I could laugh …
Who is a survivor and what exactly is battling prostate cancer?
Life, Interrupted: Am I a Cancer Survivor? By SULEIKA JAOUAD Seamus McKiernan. It was the annual fund-raising event for the Hope Lodge, my temporary home after a bone marrow transplant. The host asked all the survivors to step forward from the crowd. I froze. I didn’t know if that word applied to me. What does …
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most common cancer other than skin? prostate cancer blog by northeast georgia urologist approaching 200,000 views.
Little ole doctor in the mountains of North Georgia and look at the numbers and places folks who come to this site for information since Feb. 2012. I am so glad that Al Gore invented the internet! Country Views United States 34579 Canada 3542 United Kingdom 3433 Australia 1977 India 473 Ireland 273 Germany 225 …
Hot tubs linked to prostate cancer…well everything else is!
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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Obamacare and prostate cancer-The USPSTF…meet your new urologist.
When this all comes down what all the folks saying about doctors quitting is only partially true. It should be said that, "The doctors (me included) who can quit from a financial standpoint, will. How will ObamaCare affect prostate cancer screening? by Paul Hsieh, MD | When President Obama turned 50 last year, he made …
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Cheech and Chong and Prostate Cancer and Cannabis.
When I think of Cheech and Chong I think of a 1969 Camaro that my brother gave me in high school. Rushton bought the car almost new while he was working for Lockhead. Rushton was going to Kennesaw College as well and the money he was making per hour was more than anyone in my family was making. …
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The greatest generation, heaven, and nothing to do with prostate cancer.
I absolutely loved my sometimes imperfect mother. I don't care about this or that or stuff my father said as to why he divorced her and ran off with a "hussy" to Alaska as my grandmother described the situation. She smoked, quit college, joined the Coast Guard during WWII and then had five boys and …
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