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Ep. 142 Urology Awareness Month · Privycast

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>> Hunter Hoover: I'm not a doctor. It's been a while since I've. It's been a
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while since I've reminded you all of this here on privy. Ah.
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And I know that for a second, I had you
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fooled. You were thinking, man, when this guy
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pronounced gion wrong, and when he called it
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the pee pee hole for the third time, I was
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actually convinced that he might be a medical doctor. I'm not.
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Welcome back to privy. Privy
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is a podcast about bathrooms
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recorded from my home
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bathroom. I'm your host, hunter
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Hoover, and I love
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bathrooms. Welcome back, everyone. Thank
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you for being here. Ah.
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And the air is changing. I
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was outside with my son this afternoon, and I
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noted that the leaves are already
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beginning to change color. And I'm here to
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tell you I'm very
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thankful that that summer, and
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as much fun as it was, privy
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summer is over. Uh, it's
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time for some cooler weather. No more
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milk sweats in the middle of the summer heat. We're gonna
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dunk our oreos in and
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eat pancakes and eat
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baked goods and just really fully
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embrace the fall lifestyle. Pumpkin
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spice is around the corner, and those who
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know me know that I am all eyes on wendy's
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to see if that pumpkin spice frosty comes back.
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That sweet, sweet, frozen delight. Gotta
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get it. I am just an absolute basic white
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lady when it comes to pumpkin spice, and
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that's okay. Um, this week on
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privy, um, we're gonna revisit something that we
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have talked about a few times on the show, but we
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gotta come at it from a different angle. You know, we gotta get that
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angle, because in the past, we have
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discussed urine, and, boy, have we discussed it. We've
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discussed historical uses of
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urine, gunpowder. We've looked
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at how the ancient Egyptians used
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urine, putting it in your eyeball. Uh, and
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we've looked at just some. Some history
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of, uh,
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like, with the piss prophets. And all we can learn
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from. From how urine was viewed as this, like,
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magic substance that could tell us something about the body.
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We had some wild and randy dudes running around
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at that time. Earlier,
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uh, in our last episode, I
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shared my journey of getting a vasectomy. And
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so if you've not listened to, uh,
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vasectomies part two, go, go listen to that.
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You're going to want to seek that out. I
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probably share way too much. And,
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uh, yeah, if anything,
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this podcast exists for some honesty. So
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there you have it. I'm open to questions.
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Um, but it also, I
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highlighted in that some of my interactions with
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the urology department at the hospital.
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Our, uh, urine is
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actually kind of amazing.
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And our urine, though,
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is only a surface level
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or perhaps a drop in the bucket
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of what is dealt with in the
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field of urology, which
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turns out to be a much more intricate and important
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body system and area of study.
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Today, we're going to kick off the
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month of September, um,
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which is urology awareness
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month, by taking a look at
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the history and scope of
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urology and the history and the
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purpose and the founding of the Urology
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foundation. But before we talk about the
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foundation into history, we
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go,
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as it's been noted, um, throughout history,
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both in the time of
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where the body was understood, and they tried to
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explain the. The things that go on in the
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body and could be wrong with the body by way
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of discussing humors.
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All the way up until a time of more modern
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health, understanding germ theory and other, and
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other beliefs, it was understood
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that there is some sort of
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connection between the things that are going
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on inside our bodies
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and that golden
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stream of urine that we produce.
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Some of the earliest urological procedures
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were circumcisions. Might not think of as
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urological procedure, but it is, and it
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is. And if you don't know what circumcision
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is, you cut the wee wee hat.
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But it is also recognized that
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there were bladder and kidney stones that were
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collected or extracted throughout ancient history
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and in the medieval and coming out
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of the medieval period. And
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while there have been
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some attempts to have a more grounded
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and better understanding of urine and
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its relationship to overall health, there
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is, for much of human history, there was
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not a specific study
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to look at the very, very detailed
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problems related to the urinary tract
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and reproductive systems of
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humans. In short, for
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centuries, urology was kind of like
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a rough guess where a person
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comes in with health concerns, and then you observe
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the urine, um, based on trial
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and error, smell of the urine, the
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color of their urine. And yes, as we
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have discussed in the past, there were times where
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even the quote unquote flavor of
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the urine was evaluated. Now, this is
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very, very bad. Even in a world
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where things make a lot of sense, which they don't
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regularly. If you had a person
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who was ill, they're sick, they have a medical
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condition, and you're trying to figure out the relationship
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between the medical condition and their urine.
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Why would part of the diagnosis then
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be, you know what? I'm going to put any
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fluid that comes out of that sick person into my
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body, let alone my mouth,
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and let alone a fluid that comes out of the bottom half
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of them, like big. No. Very, very
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big no. Uh, but yes,
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they were at times conducting research
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on the urine. Bye. Taking a taste test
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and seeing if they could come up with some
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properties of the urine related to
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their medical condition. And through a time of trial and error,
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they began to try to diagnose people based on
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their urine. At this time, there
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were doctors who would focus
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on some areas of concern.
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But the field of urology,
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the study of the human reproductive
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system and the human urinary
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tract system,
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was mostly undefined. Like, there was
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understanding that it existed. But there wasn't a lot
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of specialty or expertise in the
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area until the end of the 18
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hundreds. The end of the 18
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hundreds. French surgeon and
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in due time, urologist Jean
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Casimir Felix Guyon. Now,
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if you couldn't tell from the name
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Jean with a
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jean, we have made
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it back to France. Anytime we talk
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about pee or peeing or filthy
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water or urinating or
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urinals or urine, we're
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talking about France. It really puts the wee wee
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and wee wee monsoon, if you know what I'm saying.
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But you Guyan, I'm probably saying his name wrong,
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too, is probably like. You're probably, like, gagging on the,
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like, pre
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nasal clump, uh, of
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boogers. Oh, speaking of wet,
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nobody was gonna get that.
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But Guyon studied
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medicine in Paris, and there.
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Guyon's in Paris. He served as a doctor
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and surgeon for, uh, around 30
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years. And in 1890,
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he became the professor of
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genet genitourinary
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surgery for the layman.
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Urology, genito
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genitals, and
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urinary. The wee wee monsoon we talked
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about previously, um, he became
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the professor of these things, so that's kind of cool.
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And as professor, he focused
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study on urology.
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And as a result, and in time, the
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study of urology and the focus on
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it as a specific branch of
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medical science grew. In time,
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Guyon, along with urologists
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from the United States and South
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America, established the International
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association of Urology. Now,
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what we've learned here on pre, there's all sorts. There's american
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bathroom association. There's an
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associate. If there is a thing that
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exists, what we've learned is there's an
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association that goes along with it.
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There's probably an american association of Shaz in your
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pants royale. I don't.
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If there is, you know, we'll cover it one day.
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And he did a lot to pave. Guyon did a
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lot to pave the way for urology
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as a field of study and a field of practice.
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Guyon is also credited, uh,
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with discovering the ulnar canal in the
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wrist, it's somewhere in here because this is my
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wrist. Um, but when the ulnar canal
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gets compressed, this is
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often called Guyon's tunnel syndrome
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today. So if you ever have, I think it's like corporal tunnel,
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but it's like a different one of them. And they named it after Guyon.
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Anyway, if you have Guillaume's tunnel syndrome,
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this is the guy's name. Now, it's probably like Guillaume or something like that. I
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don't know. Who knows? Nobody can possibly.
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Along with the study
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of urology, the development
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of urology is a practice is
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directly connected to the advancement
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of technology and the progression
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and the actual development of the instruments
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used in performing much of the research
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and investigation involved in
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urology. To be able to
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see into the body without cutting it
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open or through less invasive
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openings is a field
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known as endoscopy.
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Endoscopy is named as
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such because it uses
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a thing called an endoscope.
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Now, the way you can remember what an
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endoscope is, is it's a scope that
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is like a thing that you use to look through
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telescope, microscope. But, uh,
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an endoscope lets you
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look into the ends of, or
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openings of things. Things
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including the mouth, the nose,
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the ears, the
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butthole. And
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it turns out,
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breaking news, men and
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women have other openings that I did not
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just list. There are other opening options
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besides the mouth, ears, nose and butthole.
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The endoscope can
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and has been used
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to inspect the
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urethra for those at home. The
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pee pee hole. Um, and one
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pioneer of endoscopy
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as it relates specifically to the field of
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urology was Philip
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Bazzini. Now, if I had to
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guess, and this is, I guess, some bias showing. I
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don't know. I, I went to a training on bias today,
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so I know what that is.
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I, um, would have guessed that Mister Bazzini was, was like
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italian, but, um, I think he's german.
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But Philip Bazzini developed
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a rough. And first of all,
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dear Lord, nothing that
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goes into any crevice of my body
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ought to be described as rough.
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Now, I want to note, they do not mean rough as in
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sandpaper rough. They mean rough as in like, it's
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crudely, crudely designed. But, um, I
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don't like the idea of a rough. Anything going into
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any hole that I have
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don't clip that. But he developed
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a rough endoscope that he called the licked
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lighter or the light conductor.
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This licked lighter was a device.
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It's probably like lickleteer. I don't know.
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I don't speak not English. American. Like, I'm
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sorry. I'm, um. Call me what you will,
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but this was a device that
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relied on a series of mirrors
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to reflect and
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enlarge an image, um, and the
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lenses to do so. And the use
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of a candle for light to see
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into a person's body. Now,
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it was a good idea. I don't know how I feel about the
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candle being used here. Fire, um,
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being involved with any hole on my body. Again,
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just like the rough conversation. Fire plus
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rough, plus booty hole or PP hole or ear hole. And really
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any hole, you pick a hole.
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Um, it seems bad. It seems like we
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must just keep those things separate. Um,
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Bazzini had a good idea. Like, he
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did. This idea was good.
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The problem was, is his idea was
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too soon for where we were in
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advancements in other technology. Because that
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flame, one day, we're going to figure out how to make our
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own, like, light, and it won't
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involve hot fire being near any hole.
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And so, after Bazini,
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major strides in an endoscopy were. Were
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kind of small.
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And as a result, they had very little
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luck with small holes. You know what I'm saying?
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Seeing down the narrow tube of the
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urethra has proven difficult
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and inconclusive up to this
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point. They remained
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that way until the development of the
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Hopkins rod lens system
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in endoscopic.
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In endoscopes, which was developed in
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the mid 1950s. Now, the
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Hopkins rod lens system provides
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a safer, more comfortable, more
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sanitary method of seeing up into
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the urinary tract.
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Later developments in fiber optics allowed
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them to essentially take video of the Weiner
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canal, really scope it
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out. Endoscopy really
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resulted and has
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produced much of modern neurology
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to the extent that they called an
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endoscopies into the upper urinary tract
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through the urethra. A
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uteroscopy. Help me,
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father. I don't care how far technologies
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come. If someone is running a camera tube
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up that hole, I have gone astray in some way,
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or I am in dire need of medical help. I
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assume. I assume that if there is
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a person that gets to the point where they're like, yeah,
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doc, scope me out, brother. Uh,
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that they're not doing well, like, they don't feel good.
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Um, and things have called for the scope,
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in short, a uteroscopy or a
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cystoscopy, um, which is like a
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different level of, I think, invasiveness
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of a urinary tract
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infest, uh, not infection. Dear Lord, help
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us. A urinary tract endoscopy. Um,
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but both of them hitch a ride through the Ss
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urethra tube, and they're used
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to further diagnose common
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urological concerns,
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much like a colonoscopy, which is performed to
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determine, um, and whether or not
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further treatment is needed. It also can
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help remove blockages and polyps.
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Now, for some reason, like, I know
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polyps are bad no matter where they're at, but,
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like, in my brain, having a polyp in your
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colon seems less awful
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than having a polyp in your pp tube.
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Like, that
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seems less bad. I think it's because
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bigger stuff comes out of the other one.
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Either way, it's no fun. I digress.
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But the images that they view during
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endoscopies can help determine
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ongoing or suspected problems. They can help
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determine what treatment is needed, if things need to be
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removed. And modern urology
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is a study and procedure. It focuses on
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the disease and concerns related to
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kidneys, as well as reproductive health and
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concerns. These measures
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include vasectomies, club, vas, we're
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out here, erectile dysfunction.
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You know what I'm saying? Uh, and further
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understanding of the relationships
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of our
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urinary system in our kidneys and our
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filtration system with the rest of our
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body. Now, I want to note, this
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is a very surface level, non
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medical person's view of urology.
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I'm not a doctor. It's been a while since I've. It's been
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a while since I've reminded you all of this here on privy.
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And I know that for a second I had you
19:00
fooled. You were thinking, man, when this guy
19:03
pronounced gion wrong, and when he called
19:06
it the pee pee hole for the third time, I was
19:09
actually convinced that he might be a medical doctor. I'm
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nothing. Surprise. I'm not a medical doctor.
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If you're having concerns and you've come to this show for
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medical advice, go away. Keep
19:20
listening. We love you here, but go talk to your
19:22
doctor, for goodness sakes. It's not me. Um, I'm just
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trying to provide information about a thing that is loosely related
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to the bathroom, because that's what we do here on privy. Urine, bathroom.
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Get it? Urology, urine. It's all connected.
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But this is a very surface level
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view of urology and what urology is.
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And that's fitting, um, because
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September, as I stated, is
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urology awareness month.
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The history of Urology Awareness Month is
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wrapped up in the existence of the urology
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foundation, or tuff tuf for
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short. The Urology foundation. The Urology
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foundation was founded in
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1995 by Roger Kirby and
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John Fitzpatrick and they
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founded the Urology foundation
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for the purpose of preventing, treating
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and helping cure urological diseases.
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The Urology foundation is a
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nonprofit charity that improves
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the knowledge and skills of surgeons who
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work on the urinary tract system.
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Now, the Urology foundation was
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originally founded as the British. British.
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You gotta get your teeth all. Sorry, um, Brits.
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I know there's a few of you out there. I love you. M. It
20:49
was a joke. I'm sorry. Please
20:52
don't send your person after me
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and arrest me for what I
20:58
have said. Hollow threat,
21:01
brother. Um, but the British,
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it was originally founded as the British Urological
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foundation. Um, and they
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helped in placement and
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helped place medical
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students who were studying this field, helped them
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place into programs and into
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hospitals that needed help in urology and
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needed more people working in the field.
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It also helped, um, with the
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training in schooling of prospective
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urology students and doctors,
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and they've contributed to the study
21:37
and fight of prostate and testicular
21:40
cancer. And one of the big
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acts of awareness and
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fundraising for
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the Urology foundation is
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Urology awareness month. Here we are. Uh,
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if you're listening to this episode on the day it comes out, we're but five
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days into urology awareness month. I hope that you are more
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aware of urology than you were
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20 minutes ago when you began listening to this episode.
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Here we are. Urology
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Awareness Month is in its 10th year, which is
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baffling. Um,
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and maybe a little more marketing is needed.
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Urology foundation, consider this
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a free awareness plug. In.
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The last five years, much of the work of the
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Urology foundation has centered on
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understanding and destigmatizing
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prostate cancers and other
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cancers of the urological tract infection,
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as well as removing stigma
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related to, um, getting your
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prostate checked. The old gloved finger.
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Yoink. One, um, day.
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One day. I'm not old enough for the check yet. At least
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I'm telling myself that if I go into my doctor and they
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put, and they pull fast when they're like, actually, you
22:57
could probably get it done.
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Um, I don't
23:02
know about that. All I can say
23:05
is be a shame if I accidentally recorded
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something. It'd be a
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gosh darn shame. Um, I guess stay
23:14
tuned. I don't know. But the urology
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foundation states
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that to help them raise
23:22
awareness in the month of September, you
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can dress in blue, you wear
23:27
blue. Blue represents, apparently, urology
23:30
awareness. Um,
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wear blue. Apparently blue is for urine. I would
23:36
have picked yellow, but that's just me. M encouraging.
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I guess that's like cancer or breast cancer. No, pink's
23:41
breast cancer. What's the yellow one? Yellow is like cancer
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awareness or something. I don't know.
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All these colors, um, they all have something.
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Apparently blue represents urology awareness.
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Um, encourage friends and family to join in.
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Tell them about it. Create a blue themed day at
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work. Never seen this happen
24:02
again. I'm not saying that it shouldn't
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happen. I guess being aware of urology is
24:07
good. I've just never seen it happen. And so
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I'm wondering how effective this is. I
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mean, all this stuff is real. Like this is a real thing.
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And they say you can host a fun
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run, um, organize a charity runner walk in
24:22
your community, uh, to help raise funds
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and awareness for urology research.
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Um, they say that you can share about urology
24:31
awareness month on social media. Uh, they
24:34
have a hashtag, there's personal
24:36
stories. I guess I kind of did that in August. Sorry guys,
24:39
but I shared my little adventure into
24:42
urology, um, a couple weeks ago. Go check that
24:45
out. Resources awareness. You can use
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hashtags like, quote, you know me,
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I'm not a big fan. I use the hashtags. I like to say them because it
24:53
sound like an absolute flippin dweeb.
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But they say you can use hashtag urology
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awareness month. Clever one there. Um,
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to reach a wider audience and help connect
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and encourage people to share stories and support the
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cause. Or
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in some cases, you can make a podcast
25:13
episode telling people
25:16
about Urology Awareness month. That's going to do
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it for our venture, our, uh, brief venture into
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urology and the history of urology
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and the history of Urology Awareness Month and the Urology
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foundation. Um, as always here on
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