American Urological Association Awards Highest Honor to Urology Chairman...

[Guest guest]

I originally posted this to a board on " Alternative Healing

From Prostate Cancer. " Many of the members there appear still to have

one or even both feet in mainstream medicine, though. Here is the

text in full, and my comments beneath:

 

" American Urological Association Awards Highest Honor to Urology

Chairman at Johns Hopkins

12 May 2004

 

Patrick C. Walsh, M.D., professor of urology and director of the

Brady Urological Institute at Johns Hopkins, will receive the

American Urological Association's highest honor, the Ramon Guiteras

Award, for his " outstanding contributions to the art and science of

urology. " Walsh will step down in July as director of the Brady

Institute -- a post he has held since 1974 -- but will continue to

see patients and perform surgeries full time at Johns Hopkins.

 

Walsh is widely considered the world's foremost expert on prostate

cancer. He is best known for his pioneering work in the development

of the anatomic approach to radical prostatectomy, which involves

nerve-sparing techniques that have reduced the possibility of

impotence and incontinence.

 

He is the author of two best-selling books for lay people, " The

Prostate -- A Guide for Men and the Women Who Love Them, " and " Dr.

Patrick Walsh's Guide to Surviving Prostate Cancer, " published by

Warner Books in 2001.

 

The award will be presented at the conference during the President's

Dinner on Wednesday, May 12, 2004. To interview Walsh, call Trent

Stockton at 410-955-8665.

 

Johns Hopkins Medicine

Office of Communications and Public Affairs

Media Contact: Trent Stockton

410-955-8665; tstockt1@j... "

 

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WHY? Why was Dr. Patrick Walsh " honored " ? And by whom was he honored?

Why, by his own ignorant or secretive colleagues, of course. Ignorant

or secretive about what? Why, about how to either heal from or to

prevent prostate cancer, that's what!

 

What has Dr. Patrick Walsh done in ANY way to help men NOT to develop

prostate cancer in the first place?

 

IF he is " the world's foremost expert on prostate cancer " why is he

continuing to perform surgery full time? Why isn't he traveling the

country giving lectures on HOW TO PREVENT and HOW TO RECOVER FROM

prostate cancer? Because he is NOT " the world's foremost expert on

prostate cancer. " He is perhaps " the world's foremost expert on

SURGERY for prostate cancer. " But that is radically, (so to speak),

different.

 

When I first went to a urologist decades ago, one of the first things

he did was to quote me a statistic. (I've heard various numbers, but

this guy said), " Over 70% if men will develop prostate cancer at some

time in their lives. "

 

He did not add, " And that's a shame, because there are numerous ways

men can guard against developing prostate cancer, and I am going to

tell you what they are. "

 

Nor did he add, " And that's why I became a urologist, because, with

all those men developing prostate cancer, urology is a very lucrative

business! "

 

Decades ago, science and medicine set out to eradicate smallpox,

bubonic plague, polio, dyphtheria and other dread dis-eases, and they

succeeded. But instead of trying to cut down on the incidence of, or

to eradicate prostate cancer, science, doctors and industry set about

making Big Money on it!

 

Better titles for Dr. Walsh's books might be: " The Prostate---A Guide

For The Men Who Lose Them and The Women Who Lose Their Men, " and " Dr.

Patrick Walsh's Guide To Surviving,(Not Living With), and Then Dying

From Prostate Cancer. "

 

PLEASE UNDERSTAND, I am not looking to depress anyone on this board,

nor to rain on anyone's parade. I am simply OUTRAGED that a SURGEON,

who spends his days eviscerating men---dissecting out their

prostates, leaving many of them sterile, and allowing great numbers

of them to die---while doing NOTHING AT ALL to help men AVOID

prostate cancer in the FIRST PLACE---has been awarded the

AUA's " Highest Honor. "

 

That is simply and disgustingly RIDICULOUS!