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François Gigot de la Peyronie should be remembered for more than a bent penis. Peyronie served as first-surgeon to Louis XV of France, taking that post in 1736. Peyronie took a heavy interest in medical education. He helped found the Academy Royale De Chircurgie (Royal…

Here are a couple of video I made about robotic surgery. Robotic surgery has been around now for more than 20 years and has largely become the way some surgeons operate. The promise of the robotic surgery is improved visualization and improved manual dexterity. Here…

Your urinary tract is constantly working, making urine, balancing your electrolytes, regulating calcium balance and blood pressure within your body. Most people don’t think about the urinary tract until something goes terribly wrong: a kidney stone, pain in the pelvis, blood in the urine, burning…

How Kidneys Make Urine… The blood enters the glomerulus through the afferent arteriole (red arrows). The glomerulus filters the blood to make urine (yellow). The filtered blood exits via efferent arteriole (blue arrow). The nephron is the functional unit of the kidney. The glomerulus is…

This comes from a podcast, "How I Write", an episode with physician and author Atul Gawande. He reports that he tries to use normal language used by physicians within his writing and then explains them. Using euphemisms or near-miss words does not help the reader…