Folks, on August 13th I'll be celebrating my first anniversary of participating in online conversation. It also happens to be my birthday. When I initially posted to a bulletin board I was looking to spread the gospel of penile injections for ED, and I thought that would be the end of it. I spent a lot [...]
I trust that you are drinking your pomegranate juice or getting your MDR (minimal daily requirement) of the fruit in some other fashion. Dear Husband takes softgels which we get from Costco. And he also buys pom juice concentrate at the local market, Fairway, which he mixes with water and grape juice. Why? Because he says he can't drink it [...]
Yesterday I wrote this letter to a man from Glasgow, UK, who I had met in an online Prostate Cancer support group: Co-Latha Breith Sona Dhuibih, Dearest Hughie. For all of you who don't know Scottish-Gaelic, that means Happy Birthday. But it can also mean something more. Much more. Here's the rest of what I [...]
We all hear about the importance of being an empowered patient these days. Men are encouraged to learn as much as they can about treatment options. This is important and necessary. How do you become an effective advocate for yourself? Could it be that rather than being an empowered patient you might be sabotaging your [...]
I was just reading an article by the eminent scientist Stephen Jay Gould called "The Median Isn't the Message". It's about statistics. First Gould quotes Benjamin Disraeli to the effect that there are "three species of mendacity, each worse than the one before -- lies, damn lies and statistics." But then Gould tries to make the case that [...]