You have been told you have fibroids, and somewhere between the appointment and now the question arrived anyway. Possibly a scan report used a word you did not recognise. Possibly you have been managing symptoms for years and started wondering what else might explain them. Either way you want a straight answer rather than a […]

Two questions tend to sit unspoken behind the clinical ones. Will insurance cover this, and do I need someone to send me. Both are reasonable, both affect whether treatment actually happens, and both are answered less often than they should be — partly because the honest answer involves more variability than anyone likes to put […]

Most men researching treatment for an enlarged prostate hit the same wall. There are now several procedures presented as minimally invasive alternatives to traditional surgery, each described in broadly similar language — quick, outpatient, less downtime, fewer side effects — and it becomes difficult to see what actually separates them. The marketing converges even where […]

There is a gap between deciding to go ahead with a procedure and actually having it, and that gap tends to be filled with more uncertainty than it needs to be. Most of what happens in it is straightforward — a workup, some imaging, a set of instructions, and a few logistics to arrange. Knowing […]

The questions men actually ask after scheduling a procedure are rarely the clinical ones. They are logistical. Can I drive myself home. How many days do I need to take off. Is the trip I have booked in three weeks going to be a problem. When can I get back to the gym, and when […]

Most material written about prostate artery embolization is written to explain why it works. That is useful up to a point, but it leaves out the question many men actually arrive with, which is not whether the procedure works in general but whether it applies to them specifically. Reading a list of benefits tells you […]

If you’ve ever felt like just another number in a crowded waiting room, or wondered if your doctor was recommending a procedure based on what’s best for you or what’s best for the hospital’s bottom line, you’re not alone. These frustrations drove Dr. Zagum Bhatti to completely reimagine what patient care could look like. For […]