I once came across an article which immediately caught my attention because, it talked about the very people who were trained to save our lives had the most trouble saving their own. And this, was in response to a survey where nearly 50% of doctors had replied. The sad thing is that these doctors admitted that they were in advanced stages of addiction, burnout and suicide.

One of the doctors openly admitted wondering how fast he could have driven the heart pacer wires into his patient (which he did in less than three minutes) had he been sober. Many of them are suicidal, and many on anti-depressants. If you think I’m making this up, the full page article appeared about a year ago in the Montreal Gazette, where I’m from.

About a year before this, many doctors and pharmaceutical companies (mainly drug stores) were under investigation for conflict of interest. The scenario was (since its now illegal to do so), where doctors would get free rent for their offices, situated in the same building as the drug store. In my country, and my province, it’s common to see your corner drug store occupying the main floor of a building with doctors, dentists etc., offices on the top floors.

The return favor of course, you guessed it! The doctors were expected to funnel patients through these drug store doors, to fill out their probably unneeded prescriptions. I say unneeded because I personally experienced this ordeal with consequences that could have been fatal.

How many times have you gone to see a specialist, bringing your prescribed medication with you, only to be informed to throw it away? How many people do you know who spend $200 to $300 easily per month on prescriptions for all kinds of ailments that they could probably get rid of by proper diet, exercise, and at the worse case scenario, a good natural immune system booster that would rid them of most, if not all, of their ailments. I know quite a few.

My mother for one, only listens to her doctor because she believes he’s next to God almighty. Blind faith, that’s all it is. Don’t get me wrong, I see a doctor once in a while, but I make damn sure who I’m dealing with. Get some references if you can. They have problems too. They’re human and not infallible. They get depressed, take medication, drink, get divorced, and no how to kill themselves, without you even knowing about it. They are human with feelings and emotions.

Many of them, not all, are passionate about their work. But life, as usual, takes it’s toll on all of us, doctors too. So it doesn’t hurt to know more about your doctor and not to be shy about asking him or her about their opinion on certain things. I had a great relationship with my doctor for 30 years. He practiced medicine until he was 90. Unfortunately, I’ll never find one like him anymore. I had a relationship with him. We discussed all sorts of things (other than medical) as he was examining me.

A doctor who persistently insist that you take this pill and that pill, has a vested financial interest in you. It is not uncommon to see doctors holding many shares in certain pharmaceutical companies, as I’m sure you know. The elderly (and the coming age of the baby boomers retirement process) is going to be one of the biggest financial eggnest of the doctors of today. Watch out!

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My wife’s bout with ductal breast cancer led me to theorize that this epidemic may have a simple common denominator and that some simple oversight in the general population could be a contributing factor.

A plastic surgeon had removed fluid buildup from her ducts months AFTER her surgery. I wondered if its possible that this accumulation of fluid is the cause of many of these types of cancers and if a plan to regularly DRAIN these ducts could prevent ductal cancer. It is the same idea as toxic materials in the colon being a possible cause for colon cancer and another application of the addage that “CLEANLINESS IS NEXT TO GODLINESS”. It is easy to grasp that just keeping all of our “plumbing” clean could contribute to avoiding many illnesses.

I also found out that this is not such a far fetched proposition. I had read that Dr. Susan Love was an advocate of giving chemotherapy right into a women’s ducts as a treatment for ductal cancer. But this is again after the fact and I believe that the PRIORITY should be prevention. I also learned that there is a procedure called “LAVAGE” where fluid from the ducts is tested for early signes of cancer but that this is a rarely used procedure and is not yet suggested as a possible part of a system of regular maintenance.

It seems logical to extend these protocols to their next level and investigate a program of maintenance involving the REGULAR draining and pumping of the fluid from a women’s breast ducts could help to prevent ductal breast cancer.

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Dr Watson laid aside his diary and read out aloud what he had written to himself to confirm that everything was as he had remembered of the case.

On glancing over my notes of the seventy odd cases in which I have during the last eight years studied the methods of my friend Sherlock Holmes, I find many tragic, some comic, a large number merely strange, but none commonplace; for, working as he did rather for the love of his art than for the acquirement of wealth, he refused to associate himself with any investigation which did not tend towards the unusual, and even the fantastic. Of all these varied cases, however, I cannot recall any which presented more singular features than “The Case of the Nun’s Disease”.

“That my dear Watson is the crux of the matter on which everything hangs. Without that explanation, our efforts will have been in vain. It is obviously the same question that those of your profession will have asked but have failed to find the answer”. With that he sat silent for a few minutes with his finger-tips still pressed together, his legs stretched out in front of him, and his gaze directed upward to the ceiling. Then he took down from the mantle piece the old and oily clay pipe, which was to him as a counsellor, and, having lit it once again, he leaned back in his chair, with the thick blue cloud-wreaths spinning up from him, and a look of infinite languor in his face. I imagined the chemicals that were pouring into his lungs, and the damage that it would be doing as he contemplated in silence the matter at hand.

I had had so many reasons to believe in my friend’s subtle powers of reasoning and extraordinary energy in action that I felt that it would only be a matter of time before he would have some solid grounds for the assured and easy demeanour with which he treated the singular mystery which he had been called upon to fathom.

So we sat, in silence, lost in our thoughts. Then all of a sudden he exclaimed, “My dear fellow.” says he, as we sat on either side of the fire in his lodgings at Baker Street, “life is infinitely stranger than anything which the mind of man could invent. We would not dare to conceive the things which are really mere commonplaces of existence. If we could fly out of that window hand in hand, hover over this great city, gently remove the roofs, and peep in at the queer things which are going on, the strange coincidences, the plannings, the cross-purposes, the wonderful chains of events, working through generation, and leading to the most outré results, it would make all fiction with its conventionalities and foreseen conclusions most stale and unprofitable. A big smile now crossed his face and he laughed.

“Holmes! What is it that you have discovered that sheds light on this most perplexing and singular of mysteries for I am completely at a loss as to find a it’s solution?”

“Never mind,” said Holmes, laughing; “it is my business to know such things. Perhaps I have trained myself to see what others overlook. The solution here is so simple that words almost fail me.” He looked across to me, his face beaming with delight and mysterious countenance. “Tell me Watson, what did nuns do?”

Now I was completely lost! Everyone knew what nuns did. I collected together my thoughts and answered, “The life in the convent was almost identical those of the male gender who lived and worked in monstestories.

“Can you be more explicit my friend, and tell me what occupations the nuns were involved in?” .

“Well Holmes”, I ventured to add. “Convents were basically self-sufficient in all they did. Besides spending time in prayer, the nuns worked in their garden growing vegetables, harvested what they grew, baked bread, did all the manual tasks associated in keeping the convent in good order.” Much of what they did was very physical, and they all did this in the habit that they wore.”

“True, Watson, but this was no more that what the peasants did in Medieval times, and they wore long flowing garments much the same as the nun’s habit and correct me if I am wrong but there is little or no evidence that they suffered from the disease. Granted peasants breasts were not bound like those of nuns which may explain why they may have been protected from the disease due to the unrestricted movement of their breasts, and also that they suckled their young, but this explanation is inadequate in determining why nuns were more susceptible to the disease that other women”.

“They made candles which the sold or bartered”, I hastened to add.

Holmes smiled at this and he did not need to say anything, for I knew what he was thinking. Candle making was not confined to nuns but was a common trade, and as far as I knew, women of that trade did not suffer from breast cancer or any other cancer for that matter.

“Think Watson, think!”

For once I found myself unable to come up with anything more than that I had already said. “My dear friend, please put this bumbling fool out of his misery and tell me what it is that I have overlooked.” says I.
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In most men, prostate cancer grows very slowly: most men will never know they have this condition. Men have traditionally been less likely to seek medical attention than women, especially for minor problems, which often serve as warning signs for more serious underlying illness. The prostate is a small, walnut-sized structure that makes up part of a man’s reproductive system; it wraps around the urethra, which is the tube that carries urine out of the body.

Like other cancers, the cause of prostate cancer is not known; it appears to be more common in African American men and men with a family history of the disease. You may have just been diagnosed with prostate cancer and don’t know what to do; the first thing to do is not to panic.

The main job of the prostate gland is to make seminal fluid, the milky substance that transports sperm. Symptoms might include unintentional weight loss and lethargy. There are several symptoms to be aware of. There may be other symptoms not mentioned here. One of the most common symptoms is the inability to urinate at all. One symptom is a need to urinate frequently, especially during the night. Additional symptoms that may be associated with this disease are bone pain or tenderness, and abdominal pain.

A urinalysis may indicate if there is blood in the urine. A number of tests may be done to confirm a diagnosis of prostate cancer. Also urine or prostatic fluid cytology may reveal unusual cells.

There are several potential downsides to PSA testing; for example a high PSA does not always mean a patient has prostate cancer. The prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test measures the PSA enzyme in your blood for abnormalities. A chest x-ray may be done to see if there’s a spread of cancer.

Be aware that urinary incontinence can be a possible complication of surgery. The approaches to treatment include: ever watchful waiting to see whether the cancer is growing slowly and not causing any symptoms. Medications can have many side effects, including hot flashes and loss of sexual desire.

Some drugs with numerous side effects are being used to treat advanced prostate cancer, blocking the production of testosterone, called chemical castration; it has the same result as surgical removal of the testes. Recent improvements in surgical procedures have made complications occur less often. Treatment options can vary based on the stage of the tumor.

In the early stages, surgery and radiation may be used to remove or attempt to kill the cancer cells or shrink the tumor. Surgery, radiation therapy, and hormonal therapy can interfere with libido on a temporary or permanent basis. Many men simply want the best treatment they can get but what’s really important is picking the best treatment for you.

Other medications used for hormonal therapy, with side effects, include androgen-blocking agents, which prevent testosterone from attaching to prostate cells. Surgery, called a radical prostatectomy, removes the entire prostate gland and some of the surrounding tissues. Chemotherapy medications are often used to treat prostate cancers that are resistant to hormonal treatments.

Side effects of the chemotherapy drugs depend on which ones you’re taking and how often and how long they’re taken. Hormone manipulation is mainly used as a treatment to relieve symptoms in men whose cancer has spread.

Consider sites, such as this one, just a starting point where you can begin to learn about prostate cancer and its prevention and treatment. It’s important to get as informed, learn as much as possible and read all the newest books, ebooks and research available. If you haven’t been diagnosed but are concerned about symptoms you should call for an appointment to see your doctor; and if you’re a man older than 50 who has never been screened for prostate cancer (by rectal exam and/or PSA level determination) or not had a regular annual exam, or have had a family history of prostate cancer, all the more reason to make an appointment soon.

For more information on BestProstateHealthTips.com prostate cancer treatments and prostate cancer symptoms go to BestProstateHealthTips.com BestProstateHealthTips.com Helen Hecker R.N.’s website specializing in prostate and prostate cancer tips, advice and resources, including information on prostate tests and BestProstateHealthTips.com natural prostate cancer treatments

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