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I Am Not a Medical Professional, Which Puts Me in Excellent Company
Observations from the trenches of prostate cancer, marriage, and the occasional bewildered goldfish Let me be perfectly clear: I am not a medical professional. I...
Beware the siren song of the greedy urologist.
For me, it took a while to get up to speed on everything prostate cancer. Just before the pandemic my PSA was rising and once...
How to Speak Doctor When You’re Tired of Being Dismissed
In the modern medical machine, treatment isn’t so much tailored as it is templated — dispensed not according to the patient in front of the...
The Waiting Room: A Post Treatment Parable for the Terminally Stable
So you did it. You checked your PSA, because you’re responsible like that—or more likely, because a doctor with an unnecessarily cheerful tone suggested it...
Thoughts Following April 10 Webinar with Dr. Oliver Sartor
On April 10 the Mayo Clinic hosted a seminar for the Prostate Cancer Support group. As only 22 folks signed on for the on-line briefing,...
Ready to throw in the towel
I'm 60 and was diagnosed as Gleason 7, T2B. Was given Lupron, 5 sessions of SBRT and they want me to continue Lupron for a...
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