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BPH (Benign Prostatic Hyperplasia) is a Mixed Disease for Men
Many men get diagnosed with a "big prostate" called BPH (benign prostatic hyperplasia), and are pushed onto the conveyer belt for surgery, which has serious side effects.
But BPH is a mixed disease that includes both inflammation and enlargement.
Three excellent and classic studies found that men with BPH had white blood cells (inflammation) in their prostates 98.1%, 93.1%, and 90% of the time. This inflammation is also called prostatitis.
Since BPH is really a mixed disease of "prostate enlargement" and "prostate inflammation," the symptoms overlap and the treatments overlap. So, if you are diagnosed with BPH you need to know all the tests and treatments for prostatitis as well, assuming you want to be a truly informed patient before undergoing treatment.
As "BradMD" (Brad R. Hennenfent, M.D., retired) I write about medicine, economics, healthcare, basketball, and freedom.
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Paulo Rodrigues, Flávio Hering, Alex Meller, João Carlos Campagnari, Márcio D'Império. A randomized and prospective study on the value of antibiotic prophylaxis administration in transurethral resection of the prostate. Sao Paulo Med. J. 122 (1) • Feb 2004. https://www.scielo.br/j/spmj/a/xDYng9yXkjpQW5YyhJ73hYP/?lang=en#
Bedalov G, Vucković I, Fridrih S, Bruk M, Puskar D, and Bartolin Z. Prostatitis in benign prostatic hyperplasia: a histological, bacteriological and clinical study. Acta Med Croatica. 1994;48(3):105-9. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7532045/
March Madness by BradMD
"Are you watching March Madness and loving it as the games get intense? There have been spectacular finishes in these tournament games." - Actor 1 said.
Yes, I have read the book! I read it years ago when my older brother brought it home from High School, and I am reading it again right now. In fact, I am on page 49 out of 91 (I use a paperclip as a book mark), and I love this book! George Orwell's Animal Farm teaches classic truths about freedom. This version is particularly good because it is just the book, without introductions and stuff added. Its 6" x 9" size makes it great for editing the book as you read it, and for making notes on the pages. This is a life changing book for making people understand freedom. Thus, I had to take a picture of my own copy and place it below. With freedom comes free speech and free enterprise; never forget it!
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I am BradMD (Brad Hennenfent, M.D.) Many of you may have seen my posts on social media as I fight for freedom for the citizens of the USA and for freedom for the patients of the USA.
I strongly believe in maximizing liberty and healthcare freedom for all.
Here, I am listing all my social media URLs in the order that I would you like you to follow me, or at least take a look.
I am starting off with Treatment Scores, a Facebook page, that has over 244,847 followers. Treatment Scores are the "Expected Net Treatment Benefit" for the patient. Each treatment is digested down to one single number on the scale important to the patient.
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Beware: The Shocking Truth about Shingles Repair Scams!
Beware: The Shocking Truth about Shingles Repair Scams! There is a sucker born every minute!
I usually write about medicine and economics. In fact, I have written several non-fiction books dealing with medical topics (see the links below), so now, for fun, I am trying my hand at creative writing. Therefore, I must warn you that this blog post is a work of fiction!
My disclaimer, which I worked on with my new best friend, ChatGPT, goes like this: “The characters, events, and situations depicted in this blog post are purely fictional and any resemblance to real people, places, or events is purely coincidental. This blog post is intended for entertainment purposes only and should not be taken as a representation of fact or reality.”
The Classic Shingles Repair Scam
The classic “shingles repair scam” goes like this: There is a tipsy (vulnerable) old man in California, there is a hurricane, and a few shingles are blown off his roof. A $3,000 repair is legitimately needed.
An out-of-town roofer comes in. The elderly man, we’ll call him Tipsy, is told, “No matching replacement shingles exist.”
After Tipsy accepts this lie, he is told, “But wait there’s more. It’s much worse than we thought, all your shingles are bad!” Tipsy takes the roofer's word for it, he's not going to go up on the roof, he can't even get up on a step stool anymore because of vertigo.
Before Tipsy has time to think, there’s more! “We must replace your entire roof for $100,000 otherwise your house is going to flood and be destroyed when the rainy season comes.”
“It’s simple, you just take out a home equity loan, because you have a roofing emergency,” the con man says. “Don’t you realize that if these shingles explode and your roof falls down, your kitchen will be flooded. The rain will come down on your appliances, and you will have to replace everything! It will cost you tens of thousands of dollars! Maybe hundreds of thousands of dollars!”
The roofer's sense of urgency was hitting Tipsy where he hurt. He loved to cook. The con man kept the pressure on Tipsy with more half-truths to create an even greater false sense of urgency. At one point, the con man even had Tipsy believing that the shingles on his roof had been put up by a scammer thirty years ago, a scammer who used “dog-house" shingles instead of real shingles meant for a residential roof.
“The dog-house shingles are cheap asphalt shingles,” the con man told Tipsy, and he even showed Tipsy a cheap looking asphalt shingle. “These are just like yours.” To demonstrate, the con man crumbled the cheap shingles in his hands.
It was the classic “bait and switch” technique used by scammers everywhere and Tipsy fell for it “hook line and sinker” as they say.
The out-of-town roofer also told Tipsy that he “felt sorry for him” and would give him a “great deal.” “But Tipsy,” he said, “You can’t tell anyone about this deal, you have to keep it a secret from your friends, family, neighbors, and everyone else. Why, I’d go broke if people knew I was giving out deals like this.”
Tipsy never learned the basic information, such as the risk of a roof leak, or the make, model, and cost of the new shingles versus the old shingles. He never even uncovered that matching shingles were available and were being used seemingly everywhere.
Tipsy borrowed $100,000 from his bank to pay the roofer, and he dutifully kept the entire project a secret, because he had promised to do so for the nice roofer. Besides, there was pressure in the neighborhood to keep things like this a secret. Apparently, the con artist had planted a few seeds of discontent to keep the neighbors apart.
Tipsy went broke and had to move out. But even when it was explained to Tipsy in excruciating detail how he got scammed, Tipsy would not believe it!
Why can’t people who get scammed admit it? Well, it is embarrassing. There were allegedly people who defended Charles Ponzi almost to the bitter end.
Con men are smart, although a con woman, Big Bertha Heyman, may have been the smartest. Big Bertha allegedly scammed a rabbi and the Beth Israel Congregation!
The movie, Funny Girl, is allegedly about a con man named Nicky Arnstein, who was also a suave gambler. He allegedly did swindles with stocks and bonds, and he died in Fort Leavenworth prison.
The Ladies Deposit Company was allegedly a scam, and allegedly some victims kept up their support for Sarah Howe, long after it became obvious that she was scamming people.
One con man, Oscar Hartzell, scammed people with the last name, Drake, by telling them he wanted to give them their inheritance from Sir Frances Drake. Even after Oscar Hartzell went into Leavenworth prison, people named Drake kept sending him money!
Tipsy is special, because he still has no idea that he
was a victim of the “shingles repair scam.” As you might guess, he has already
been scammed again, and the latest scam was literally done “right under his nose.”
Roofing scams are so successful in California, and allegedly in other warm weather places, that sometimes homeowners almost literally scam themselves! Sadly, consumer fraud experts say that variations of the “shingles repair scam” are still going on today.
Why can't people admit that they have been scammed out of their money?
My friend ChatGPT had this to say:
I must give some credit to ChatGPT!
ChatGPT is “...an AI model developed by OpenAI.” While writing this blog post, I had several conversations with “OpenAI's GPT-3 language model.” Thus, OpenAI was the source for some of this content. ChatGPT asked that I give some links:
PROMINANT LINK: https://openai.com/
THE CHAT ITSELF: https://chat.openai.com/chat
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Surviving
Prostate Cancer Without Surgery - Paperback
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The Pledge of Allegiance to Freedom - Paperback
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The
Prostatitis Syndromes 2nd Edition: Waking at Night to Urinate, Prostatitis,
Chronic Prostatitis, BPH, Acute Urinary Retention, Anatomy, Pelvic Pain, Sex,
and Men's Health Explained - Hardcover
https://www.amazon.com/Prostatitis-Syndromes-2nd-Retention-Explained/dp/1953403050
Uncles and Etymology - Kindle Edition
https://www.amazon.com/Uncles-Etymology-BradMD-ebook/dp/B08GH19J37
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If you can be Brave and True like Donald Trump
If you can be brave and true like Donald Trump:
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!
(Regards to Rudyard Kipling)
President Donald J. Trump has been the greatest example of free speech in history. No one has spoken out and used the free marketplace of ideas better. He has called attention to our economic problems, bad trade deals, and our broken border, where organized crime and drugs are pouring in at alarming rates, and the criminals are bringing human trafficking with them.
His immature critics seem to be unaware of the old adage that "Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me. In fact, the response of those with opposing views has been personal attacks, censorship, and totalitarianism. President Trump has endured political prosecutions, and witch-hunts, just for speaking freely by those who do not understand the principles of freedom.
President Donald J. Trump has been awarded "Free Speech Award" by BradMD
President Donald J. Trump has been awarded the ultimate Free Speech Award for the year, 2022, by BradMD.
President Trump is Free Speech. Under the phrase free speech in the dictionary, future editions should say President Donald J. Trump.
President Trump exemplifies why the Founding Fathers (such as Thomas Jefferson and James Madison) of the United States of America specifically protected free speech in the First Amendment to the Constitution. Without free speech there is totalitarianism. Without free speech there is no freedom.
President Trump exposed the "thought police" and the "deep state." When President Trump would tweet for example, we would constantly be told what President Trump thought as if We the People were unable to read and interpret what he wrote for ourselves. True statements would often be said to be false statements, racist statements, or against the public interest.
True statements would often be undermined by the "hive mob." True statements would often be falsely suggested to mean something that was not actually said. President Trump's use of free speech to promote freedom inspired many to remember America's greatest philosopher, Ayn Rand (Atlas Shrugged), and America's greatest freedom economist, Milton Friedman. Trump is among America’s greatest philosophers and economists as well, because he got results despites mountains of hostility. President Trump has been America’s greatest president, surpassing Ronald Reagan, because Trump has an uncanny ability to get results.
President Trump has a Bachelor of Science degree in economics from the Wharton School (a private business school) at the University of Pennsylvania. President Trump laid out a plan that will cure inflation, which he will institute as president in 2024. President Trump has been the greatest president in history on economics, using "the multiplier" to great advantage. President Ronald Reagan was the only other president who had a degree in economics.
Looking back, we are reminded that the first American President, George Washington, played a pivotal role in the Bill of Rights containing the First Amendment to the Constitution.
But today, much of the mob cannot handle free speech. They were not taught the childhood adage: “Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” Without logic and maturity, and the ability to debate without violence, the issues cannot be discussed, and the free marketplace of ideas cannot lead us to the best solution. Congratulations President Donald J. Trump! You are an American hero.
P.S. I do not usually support politicians, usually I only support policies. However, President Trump delivered results. Depsite all the sound of fury of everyone else telling us what he really thought (the thought police) and what he really meant, PRESIDENT TRUMP GOT GREAT RESULTS. Trump delivered great economics and price transparency in healthcare. Then, Trump was unjustly attacked. Therefore, I support President Donald J. Trump for president in 2024, because I want good results again. I want great jobs and prosperity for everyone.
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