When I think of my first two years of medical school, a blur of endless hours of studying and an overwhelming feeling of anxiety permeating the air immediately overtake me and I get a knot in the pit of my stomach. I’m sure I’m not alone. Just ask any physician who wants to remember. He will concur.
In my work as a clinical cardiologist, I’ve been accustomed to getting the occasional medical question at the parties I attend. Almost without exception, these questions have centered on the person’s cholesterol concerns. But recently, all of this seems to have changed, thanks to the availability of a new class of drugs, the statins, which has all but revolutionized the field of heart disease prevention.
The latest and most exciting trend in plastic surgery is not a particular procedure or a new approach but a new demographic. Men are beginning to embrace the concept of cosmetic surgery in numbers never previously seen, and the procedures they are interested in have started to change as well.
The bane of all men is prostate cancer. More so than heart disease because of what happens once prostate cancer is suspected. Unfortunately, too often it is addressed with aggressive surgical methods.
Check out any of the lads’ mags and you’ll see that in addition to ads for watches and cars, they’re filled with articles on how to pleasure a woman. Similarly, women’s magazines regularly take up the issue of how to please a man. Which leads us to wonder: Since when do men’s and women’s bodies require user manuals? One answer may lie in their sexual fragility. For those experiencing sexual dysfunction, there’s no need for embarrassment or despair. Help is available to men and women at The Andropause Center and The Medical Center for Female Sexuality respectively, under the medical direction of Dr. Michael A. Werner in Purchase.
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