Show ff t t M npi P’P" P I The Herald Journal Logan Utah Thursday 1 Quick wit puts smoker in place By Am Landers Creators Svndteate Inc DEAR ANN LANDERS: You have printed sever- doctors who misdiag- nosed or ignored symptoms ulenen over the yean about that later turned out to be serious In one letter a woman complained that her family doctor had not paid serious attention to a melanoma In another someone complained that family doctors ia aa excellent diagnostician and people should feel confident seeking his help — A Doctor's Wife in Escondido Calif DEAR WIFE: Thank you for standing up for Csm-ily doctors They deserve the support And I appne- cute foe opportunity to remud my readers that all suspicious lumps should be biopsied Better to be safe than sorry DEAR ANN LANDERS: My mother and I work in a convenience store at our family's service station We have "no smoking" signs posted on the doors and in various other places One day a his family doctor had missed nice-looki- gentleman came in ng smoking a cigarette My mother asked him politely if he would please put out the cigarette or smoke it outside The man replied in a courteous and nonbelligerent tone of voice MI notice that you sell cigarettes in here Why can’t I smoke in here?" My mother replied “We sell toilet paper in here too" The man looked astonished ana didn’t know what to say Then he began to laugh Now every time he comes into foe store he asks if we are soil selling toilet and we laugh all over again — IA in the diagnosis of prostate cancer and failed to order a PSA test My husband "Alfred" is a certified family doctor and I would like lo write in Ms defense Many yean ago Alfred a graduate of Stanford Medical School took a friend out to dinner The friend asked Alfred what he should do about die warts on his hand My husband said “I am much more concerned about the jnole on your neck” He March 5 1998 — Page 17 FOR BETTER OR WORSE ubT&okwotb See Hart 3&HN dHE LOOKS) UKE DK Held her HBflflPTfteyWEflE WHEN He PO HNttTH&NURte P6KEDP8HB BOUGHT rr-B- UT SHDUlDTfiKBOFF felDlDMOMSHe MOM'S caxvwJePtM UCOONG BAND BUT HIS fiAlD'Ntf IT WAS W6l 6HeCHoeeiH& CHEAPEST ONE rr costtem BUT when He PUT IT ON HER FINGER -I- T WAS RAICELE8S Dooms RNONlte 61 WB GILBERT made an appointment to remove the mole disco “MadisoTva eredit was melanoma a deadly form of cancer and ' DEAR IA: Has your mother ever considered referred his friend to the talk shows? specialist in writing gags for one of those late-nigthe field That was 30 yean ago The man ia still in She has a razor-shar- p wit and could clean up Write very good health again — anytime In the yean before the PSA was used my husDEAR ANN LANDERS: I’m awfully late in band found a hard lump in one of his patients dur-in- g writing but I travel a lot and my daughter clips a digital exam and referred the man to a your columns for me Here’s the advice I would have given to "Older urologist The urologist said the lump was not cancerous The next year the same patient returned for Sister in Oregon" whose little brother broke their his annual physical and my husband referred him grandmother’s Tiffany lamp: Anybody who hangs an $800 glaas lamp over a pool table and then again to the urologist Receiving foe mm answer my husband insisted the patient see another special- - allowa two 11 -- year-old boys to shoot pool three ist who biopsied foe lump and discovered it was deserves exactly what she got Grandma should malignant politely refuse any offers from the boy’s mofoer to Please Ann there are and poorly reimburse her — A in Connecticut DEAR GG: Beautiful I wish I had thought of qualified people in every field and all are capable of making mistakes My husband like many other that best-qualifi- ed ht well-qualifi- ed Great-Grand- New treatments for anal fissures Peter H Gott MD Newspaper Enterprise Aaaoclatlon variety rf muscle disorders including strabismus (crossed eyes) and difficulty swallowing Botulinum toxin relaxes muscles hence its effectiveness in relieving anal spasm and promoting healing The technique is not yet widely used for anal fissures but promises to be a welcome addition to the therapies for this painful condition ' DEAR DR GOIT I had surgery for hemorrhoids in 1996 Since then I've had painless rectal bleeding for about three days every six weeks The surgeon said that I’ve holed completely and that the bleeding must have been something I ate Can this really be caused by my diet? DEAR READER: Not in my opinion Food does not produce rectal bleeding nor does it look like blood on the toilet paper (The one exception is beets) I suspect that you have developed a tiny chronic ulcer at the operative site or another hemorrhoid may occasionally Meed Or you might be Needing from an unrelated source high up in the rectum This should be easy to diignote ' Thc next time ypu notice rectal Needing get an appointment with u RE’ BLEEDING He mUfcxanunie your anus and lower colon with a special instrument and should be able to see foe bleeding point at which time he can cauterize it By DEAR DR GOTT I have a painful anal fissure Are there new treatments for this? DEAR READER: Anal fissures are common Consisting of tiny tears in the anal sun such fissures cause severe periodic pain after defecation and bright red rectal Heeding For many yean foe customary treatment was topical anesthetics warm baths stool bulking agents and mechanical anal stretching Surgery was sometimes required but was associated on occasion with incontinence About three yean ago doctors began using nitro- glycerine cream The results were encouraging but cbmecJo the dr ! 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