Word: urologist
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...Being a medical doctor. People say, "Well you're just a pathologist." My specialty is death. And if not a pathologist, who? Would you have a pediatrician do it? Or let's get more absurd. What if I was a urologist? Could I help only men end their lives...
That kind of restraint will not be easy. Over the past several decades, much of American medical practice and public expectation has been geared toward the idea that if someone has cancer, it should be treated without delay, observes Dr. Gerald Chodak, a urologist at the University of Chicago. But as blood tests and biopsies detect ever smaller cancers, physicians and patients will have to make more sophisticated decisions about treatment...
Though the greatest suffering is among the poor, visiting doctors were shocked to see the reduced state of their own, mostly middle-class relatives, who must also scrounge for clean water and make do with rationed flour that is often cut with sawdust. "The children looked thinner," noted Chicago urologist Emil Totonchi, who also judged his brother, a Baghdad physician, to be "clinically depressed." Said Totonchi: "When I looked into the faces of my relatives, I saw there was something major lacking. I didn't see much of life or hope -- just bare existence projected so strongly...
Until the 1980s, the only therapy doctors had to offer was penile implants -- prosthetic devices that are surgically inserted into the penis to mimic an erection. Now, declares urologist Drogo Montague of the Cleveland Clinic, "the implant is the end of the treatment line." Before resorting to implants, doctors are able to draw upon less drastic remedies...
...penis. The resulting vacuum draws blood into the penis until it becomes rigid. Rubber bands are then slipped onto the base of the penis to keep the blood from escaping; the bands can be left in place safely for half an hour. The vacuum machine costs about $450. Urologist Perry Nadig of San Antonio has followed 340 of his patients who have used the device, some for as long as six years; fully 80% of the men are satisfied with the results. Morton Perrin, 76, of Durango, Colo., whose impotence followed surgery for prostate cancer ten years ago, says...