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: 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”