I will be ending this podcast in its current format at the end of this calendar year, 2021.  I have not run out of ideas for episodes of this podcast. I have not depleted my energy for doing something creative. I still want and would welcome any-and-all guests for interviews and conversations that center around some aspect of urology and the practice of medicine. I still want your comments and feedback. And I am still so grateful that you are listening to these episodes. My idea to start a podcast began around 6-7 years ago when I, myself, discovered the power of podcasting and pod ..read more

  Here is something that is true. You and I are all story tellers. My thesis is that a story does one of four things: inform or inspire, educate or entertain. A story teller is one who informs, inspires, educates, or entertains. I was listening to a podcast the other day where a screenwriter was talking about adapting a short story into a screenplay, how some stories lend themselves to the adaption, how the scope of the story changes with the format, and why some great novels, plays or short stories become really bad movies. As a story teller she would say, you have to know if your story ..read more

The urethra is a crucial component of genitourinary system in the male, serving both as a way to get urine out of the body as well as to get semen from the prostate and ejaculatory ducts out of the body during ejaculation. We tend to think of the urethra as just a passive channel during urination, but the urethra is dynamic during ejaculation. We also tend to think of the male urethra is a single structure, again just a tube that connects the bladder to the outside world, beginning within the bladder wall and ends in the distal glans of the penis. But the urethra is composed of a heteroge ..read more

In this episode I reflect on some things that are important for building a healthy medical career: 1. Education, 2. Find meaningful work within medicine, 3. Move away from home/start a practice, 4. Find partnership in your practice or medical community, 5. Give back to your community, staff, and patients from a strong foundation from the first four steps. Connect with me at whyurologypodcast.com ..read more

Dr David Prall joins this episode of the podcast to discuss BPH and Urolift. Dr Prall is a partner in my practice with a center of excellence designation for the Urolift procedure. I ask Dr Prall the ten questions I think can be applied to any procedure about the Urolift procedure. Find more at www.urolift.com Connect with me at whyurologypodcast.com ..read more

September is prostate cancer awareness month. Prostate cancer is the most common non-skin cancer diagnosed in men. All men are at risk of developing prostate cancer as they get older. 1 in every 8 men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer during his lifetime. Not all men diagnosed with prostate cancer need treatment, Many prostate cancers grow slowly and stay in the prostate. but all men should know if they have prostate cancer. Getting prostate cancer screening with a digital rectal exam and an annual prostate specific antigen or PSA test is the way to detect prostate cancer earlier, while s ..read more

Six things to ask yourself before you see your doctor In the previous episode of this podcast, I reviewed five things you need to do before seeing your doctor for your next appointment.  In that episode I said that the very first thing you need to do before even making an appointment is to sit down with a piece of paper or a notebook and to write down why you are going to be seeing the doctor in the first place. In this episode we are going to talk about  six questions to ask yourself about your elbow pain prior to seeing your doctor. These six questions are the same questions that y ..read more

  Five Things You Need To Get Ready for your next Doctor’s Appointment Here is the problem for this episode.  Many people are not prepared for their doctor appointments. Think about it for a second. Let’s say your elbow hurts and you want to have it looked at. You call the doctor, maybe your primary care physician but probably your othopedic surgeon to take a look at it. You make an appt for Wednesday at 1015 in the morning. Now what? How do you prepare for that appt?  Today I want to give you the first few top priority things you need to do before, during, and maybe even after ..read more

Here are my answers to the ten questions about the male urethral sling procedure. You can find more information at fixincontinence.com Connect with me at whyurologypodcast.com What is the diagnosis?             The diagnosis is urinary stress incontinence. A male urethral sling is placed for men with stress urinary incontinence, most often as a result of prostate removal for prostate cancer. Stress incontinence is leaking when a man coughs, sneezes, or lifts. Candidates for this type of surgery are generally men with mild to moderate leakage (1 ..read more

Recently I have been working on putting some videos together using my ten questions model for the artificial urinary sphincter and the male sling procedures used to treat post prostatectomy incontinence. We last time talked about the artificial urinary sphincter was back in episode 15.   These are simple videos done vidscrip style, just me in front of a camera, and you find links to the videos at https://www.vidscrip.com/toddbrandt and more specifically at the link https://app.vidscrip.com/vidscrip/5726cbc9a254a5897c3cbdb9 You can find my episode on the ten questions at episode 97. Men wh ..read more