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Urology

Columns by practising urologists on the conditions they treat, the operations they perform, and the decisions patients are asked to make.

Urinary Tract Infection

The cystitis antibiotic that worked last year

A urologist who helped write Korea's guideline on antibiotic treatment of community-acquired urinary tract infection on why the right first choice is a local question, what a culture is actually for, and when a course should be changed rather than extended.

Seung Ki Min20 Oct 20266 min read

Prostate

The question about prostate surgery men ask last, and should ask first

A urologist on what changes about ejaculation after an operation for benign prostatic hyperplasia, why erections are a separate question, and what the evidence for preserving antegrade ejaculation actually shows.

Jung Ho Cho13 Oct 20267 min read

Prostate

Age is not the first thing to check before prostate surgery

A urologist on the questions that actually decide whether an older man can have his prostate operated on — the drugs, the size of the gland, what a previous operation left behind, and the bladder nobody examined.

Jeman Ryu11 Sept 20267 min read

Kidney Stones

The stone is out. So why am I being asked to come back?

A urologist on what the visit after stone surgery is actually for — the stent and its date, the fragments left behind on purpose, and a kidney that has to be seen to have gone down.

Joon Chae Na9 Sept 20266 min read

Prostate

He cannot stop his blood thinners. That is not a reason to rule out prostate surgery

The operation that removes the most tissue is the one recommended when the bleeding risk is highest. A urologist on why that is not a contradiction, and on what the guidelines actually name.

Chang Ki Lee8 Sept 20266 min read

5 columns · written by practising clinicians and published as signed opinion · the rest of the specialties are at /columns