A Celebration of the Life of a Great Man!
I never announce when a patient of mine expires. But this is different. For me, if they die, or when they die, it's unpleasant. I treat my patients like family. Mr. Robert (Bob) Ryland peacefully passed away at 100 years old on August 3, 2020. While I still feel the…
COVID-19: Let’s do Better
Shifting perspective from fear and anxiety to health and optimism is key to surviving and even thriving during this COVID pandemic. COVID-19 has exposed our dysfunctions – dysfunction within ourselves, our relationships, our business, and our government. What brings on fear and anxiety is mostly the uncertainty of what can…
It’s OK to be Vulenarable When Diagnosed with Prostate Cancer
Today, I had a telehealth consult with a 61-year-old gentleman with prostate cancer. He has a moderate disease with a PSA of 32.0. This grown man began to cry in the middle of our discussion. I mean sob! The reason he cried, he said, is because he had the best…
What Prostate Biopsy is Best?
Overview of Prostate Biopsies While there are better methods nowadays to learn if a patient has prostate cancer, the gold-standard way to find malignancies in the gland is only through a prostate biopsy. Some reason's why men want to avoid a prostate biopsy include; the procedure is uncomfortable and even…
10 Things To Know Before Getting A Prostate Biopsy
So, your PSA is high and now you need a prostate biopsy. The thought of having a prod up your rectum with needles going through it makes you cringe. Yep, no man ever wakes up in the morning excited about this procedure. Here I share with you 10 things I…
Figure Out Your Teenage Daughter’s Story & Fix it
It’s Father’s Day! At this time of the year, I think about my performance as a dad, and, rather than writing about prostate problems, or more recently, COVID-19, or other health matters, I write about my thoughts on fathering. I believe that my job as a father is the most…
Vitamin D – Important for COVID-19, Plus Concerns About Toxicity
Vitamin D gets a lot of publicity. It has for a while, not only during these COVID times. Still, in our society, we tend to build things up to then knock it down. In a recent article in the New York Post, consuming vitamin D to prevent or co-manage COVID-19 infections was…
How COVID-19 affect Men with Prostate Cancer
As time goes on, COVID-19 and its associated strains will continue to be in our consciousness That is part of our new way of life. As a urology and male health care practitioner, I’m focused on figuring out how my prostate cancer patients are particularly vulnerable to this COVID and…
[VIDEO] Strength training with Scott
For the last three years, my good friend and neighbor, Scott and I practice strength training and talk about different things; politics, business, health raising kids (he has 5 kids YIKES!), etc. Scott is also good at taking videos and editing them. Lately, for fun, he’s been videotaping some of…
Meditation, Stress & the Prostate
What is the connection between stress, meditation, and prostate / urinary health? My research and clinical experience in urology have taught me one thing, not all urinary related urinary problems in men, despite age, are related to the prostate. I think physicians who automatically treat male urinary problems with prostate…