Not to exaggerate but hernia surgery is big business so why not cash in! I am close to finalizing a pay for view event “Hernias the Agony and the Ecstasy” with Fightview International based in Pineville, North Carolina. There will be three event viewings. View one: “The Scourge of the Hernia Plague” View two: “HerniaContinue reading “RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: What Exactly is the Hernia Club and How I Will Make a Fortune Out of it: Hernia Pay for View Event”
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RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: What Exactly is the Hernia Club and How I Will Make a Fortune Out of it: A Global Hernia Help Hotline?
Given that hernia surgery is one of the most “common surgeries” in the developed world and the citizens in the developed world have massive amounts of cash to squander on consumer goods why not create a global hotline assuaging and profiting from Hernia Fear? Where there is medical fear there is money to be madeContinue reading “RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: What Exactly is the Hernia Club and How I Will Make a Fortune Out of it: A Global Hernia Help Hotline?”
RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: What Exactly is the Hernia Club and How I Will Make a Fortune Out of it: A Surgical Resort?
Your admission into the Hernia Club (Inguinal Division) commences from the day you emerged from the shower and noticed a bulge just above the waist. Membership ends upon your death. There is no initiation fee, annual charge or minimum bar and restaurant tab required. No need to worry about global inclusion and diversity. The preponderanceContinue reading “RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: What Exactly is the Hernia Club and How I Will Make a Fortune Out of it: A Surgical Resort?”
RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: Surgery is the Easy Part: No Worries as We’ve Seen it All Before!
Newbies to the Hernia Club are frequently barking up the wrong tree once they decide it is time for surgery and keenly focus on the surgery itself to the exclusion of the healing process. I will not review differing surgical approaches here as they are amply discussed on the internet. It is perfectly natural toContinue reading “RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: Surgery is the Easy Part: No Worries as We’ve Seen it All Before!”
RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: Surgical Options and Preparing for Your Big Date
Be aware there are several surgical options; open, laparoscopic and robotic. The method chosen may be totally your choice or it may be dictated by the type and complexity of the hernia. Take the time to familiarize yourself with the differing methods. You may have the option to do nothing or wait. But circumstances mayContinue reading “RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: Surgical Options and Preparing for Your Big Date”
RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: Educate Yourself: Terror or Truth?
I have previously mentioned in a perfect world there would be a comprehensive guidebook available to newly minted members of the Hernia Club. It could be that such a guidebook exists but even then, it is most likely written by a single author with a singular viewpoint. Perhaps you’d like a varied source of informationContinue reading “RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: Educate Yourself: Terror or Truth?”
RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: It’s Official Now: Welcome to the Hernia Club
Those people in the white coats have summoned you to award you membership in the Hernia Club. There are some 700,000 hernia repairs each year in the United States and 100,000 in the United Kingdom. There is not much exclusivity in the Hernia Club. No ribbons. No gold stars. But most likely some bruising andContinue reading “RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: It’s Official Now: Welcome to the Hernia Club”
RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: Jelly and the Ultrasound Roll
Your physician has diagnosed a hernia of sorts and there are several types and if its an inguinal hernia the next step in the journey will usually be an inguinal ultrasound. Move those underpants down, let the gel flow and the wand does its magic. No preparation No pain. No fuss. No loss of dignity.Continue reading “RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: Jelly and the Ultrasound Roll”
RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: A Victim of Sexism and The Squat They Never Taught You in Gym Class
Off to Sunnybrook Hospital in Toronto, specifically to the Family Practice Clinic which I have been a patient of for a decade or so. It is part of the University of Toronto Faculty of Medicine and its physicians are instructors at that Faculty of Medicine. Sunnybrook is a teaching hospital for residents wishing to practiceContinue reading “RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure: A Victim of Sexism and The Squat They Never Taught You in Gym Class”
RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure
THE JOURNEY BEGINS The Great Hernia Adventure begins prior to your realization of it a common feature of maladies, afflictions and plagues. You only know when you are stricken. Out of the shower in May 2023. Towelling off. You don’t always look “down there” but even when you do are you are paying any degreeContinue reading “RKS Health: The Great Hernia Adventure”
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