The best Prostate surgeon anywhere is Dr. Vipul Patel in Celebration, Florida. He has patients fly in from all over the world to do surgery. He perfected the DiVinci method for Radical Prostotectomy. His practice is Global Robotics Institute, 407-303-4673.
Dr. Patel has done over 8,000 procedures and teaches as well as written the textbooks for this technique.
Dr. Raj here in TV, at "Advanced Urology", has done 1,200. He is supposed to be very good, but there is quite a difference in the track record.
I am a RN. I want the most experienced Dr with the best outcomes for my family. Some people will go to any doc without knowing that doc's outcomes. It make make all the difference in quality of life, for the rest of your life.
Surgery is not the best option for everyone! But if you are considering surgery, you need to see the best surgeon out there. A friend asked his Urologist "Who would you see if you were me?", The Urologist said, "Well, 2 yrs ago I was in your shoes and I went to Dr. Patel."
Dr Patel does a nerve sparing posterior approach. He moves the nerves out of the way before removing the prostate, preventing damage to the nerves that control erectile function, bladder and rectum. He has less patients with lingering incontinence, impotence and rectal leaking. These are all possibilities with Prostate Surgery. His patients have PT to control the pelvic floor muscles before and after surgery.
It is an amazing practice and if you go there you will see what I mean. They have thought of everything and do all that they can to make this very frightening cancer something of which you can be confident of the best possible outcome.
Driving an hour each way is nothing compared to getting the world's best to do your surgery, or at least give you a 2nd opinion.
It is a frightening diagnoses, and many men can carry on with "watchful waiting". But educate yourself, go to the roundtables, read everything you can get you hands on, and talk to several doctors.
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