Blogs

As she nears the end of her residency, Amy Pearlman, MD, reflects on what stressful moments from her time in urology have taught her.

The AUA annual meeting provided learning experiences for Henry Rosevear, MD, on multiple levels. Here are eight observations he brought home from San Diego.

With the AUA annual meeting beginning Friday, UT blogger Adele M. Caruso, MSN, CRNP, reflects on the benefits of professional meeting attendance.

"I have no personal experience with marijuana. But I do practice medicine in Colorado and given the state’s ongoing experiment with legal recreational marijuana, I am accumulating a significant amount of professional experience with the drug," writes Henry Rosevear, MD.

Henry Rosevear, MD, discusses Enhanced Recovery After Surgery, a protocol that allows urologists in the trenches to provide excellent perioperative care.

Urologist Henry Rosevear, MD, has put together a brief checklist for first-time attendees-and for veteran attendees as well.

Physician assistant Lisa Kerr, PA-C, shares techniques for improved patient understanding and care.

Every year, September through January is both an exciting and anxious time for fourth-year medical students and urology residency programs alike. With the conclusion of the 2016 urology match season this past January, I felt the same exhilaration that I did just 3 years ago. This year, however, I had the privilege to reflect on the demanding application process from the lens of an interviewer rather than that of an interviewee. Read more from Nirmish Singla, MD

During my second year as a urology resident, I walked into my mid-year evaluation meeting with my chairman, threw my hands up in the air, and told him I wasn’t happy with how I was operating. When I later reviewed my chairman’s dictated letter regarding our meeting, he wrote, “She has a lot of self-awareness.” While the remainder of the letter was also very complimentary, this single phrase really stuck out and was perhaps the most meaningful comment in the document. Learn more about Dr. Amy Pearlman's journey to becoming self-aware and why it's important.

Nurse practitioner Adele M. Caruso, MSN, CRNP, discusses appropriate timing of follow-up and ponders related health insurance coverage and cancer survivorship issues.

Urologists have direct experience with drug shortages and their impact on pricing, thanks to the recent shortage of BCG. A sudden hike in the price of a competing generic drug seemed to be no coincidence, Henry Rosevear, MD, writes. He ponders a few similar, troubling cases and some proposed solutions.

The VA Choice program wasn’t designed to bring VA patients to community physicians; rather, it was designed to turn community physicians into VA doctors. And that does not work, says Henry Rosevear, MD. Dr. Rosevear shares his experience with the VA Choice program and shares what he sees as its limitations and what needs to change.

mentors may come in several disguises, including instructors from whom we have learned, clinicians whom we have observed, or researchers under whom we have worked. For many, however, the quest to find a role model begins at home. Learn more

Henry Rosevear, MD, recently read what he felt was 2015's best article on the business of health care.

In her first blog post for Urology Times, Lisa Kerr, PA-C, shares two very different employment experiences that taught her about the urology PA’s role in today’s practice.

Look back on the year that was with this roundup of the 10 most-read Urology Times articles from 2015.

We asked members of our editorial board what they hope to see in the world of urology in the coming year.

This article is about the trend of independent doctors selling out to hospitals and why this trend may be about to change.

In her first blog post for Urology Times, nurse practitioner Adele M. Caruso, MSN, CRNP, provides an update on the ongoing PSA screening debate and discusses helpful resources to use when questions on screening arise.

With 87% of all adults using the Internet and 70% of all millennials searching for a doctor online, it’s become essential for every health care professional to cultivate an online presence, and social media is the quickest route to establishing it.

My story begins last fall when I went through the process of signing up for health insurance through my practice. As I trust insurance companies about as much as I trust the government, I took what I thought were reasonable precautions.

As my practice worked through the meaningful use attestation process earlier this year, I began to believe that the government was putting us through the electronic equivalent of an aerial acrobatic maneuver that would impress Ethan Hunt of “Mission: Impossible” fame. And I wasn’t pleased.

Urology Times blogger Ashley G. Winter, MD, writes of "a growing and dangerous turn in how the medical community envisions surgical training."

Given the current controversy, I thought it might be worth learning about the history of the American Board of Urology and maintenance of certification to better understand why the ABU finds it necessary for us to jump through the hoops the board has created.

A urologist in academic practice recently told Henry Rosevear, MD, that it’s impossible to simultaneously be an excellent clinician and a businessman. "I disagreed," Dr. Rosevear writes. "Emphatically."

Urology Times blogger Henry Rosevear, MD, got reactions to an earlier blog about falls in the elderly-but not from who he was expecting to hear from.

We are entering a new era when patients will present not with an elevated PSA but rather with symptoms, writes Henry Rosevear, MD.

Antimicrobial prescription, imaging for localized prostate cancer, and shared decision making for PSA screening are among the topics of the AUA’s latest Choosing Wisely recommendations.

On his flight home from this year’s AUA, Henry Rosevear, MD, decided to write down a few valuable lessons he took away from his time in New Orleans.

Despite our best efforts, we make mistakes and complications occur, says blogger Henry Rosevear, MD. It is simply part of a physician’s job, but it is not a part that Dr. Rosevear is comfortable with. Nevertheless, dealing with complications and grieving are normal, and he offers some advice based on lessons learned.