Substacks recommended by Howard Wolinsky

Recommended by Howard Wolinsky

Prostate Cancer - The bits they leave out...

I’m no doctor (go see one for medical advice!), but I am someone who's been through the wringer with prostate cancer. A space for the real and unfiltered, the laughs, the struggles, the bits they don’t put in the pamphlet (so many bloody pamphlets)!

You don't have to be funny to have prostate cancer, but a good sense of humor helps in dealing with it. Mark Stephenson shares his journey--with eyes wide open, a funny bone marveling at the crazy stuff we patients go through,

- Howard Wolinsky

Prostate Cores

By Howard Wolinsky

Prostate Cores includes abstracts (brief summaries) of research on ActiveSurveillance, low-risk to favorable intermediate-risk prostate cancer, BPH (benign prostatic hyperplasia), and prostatitis.

This is the companion newsletter to TheActiveSurveillor. Many years ago--back in the 1980s--I wrote abstracts, or abridged versions, of articles from medical journals. Prostate Cores contains abstracts not only on low-risk PCa but BPH, prostatitis, and cancer survivorship.

- Howard Wolinsky

Have You Seen My Prostate?

By Anthony Feig

I had prostate cancer and I write goofball stories about that. Maybe some other stuff too.

Curative - Patient-Focused Cancer Care

By Daniel Flora

Making Cancer Care Smarter, Safer, and More Human

Dr. Flora has known cancer up front and personal since he was a teen and his mom was diagnosed. He was determined to find a gentler and kinder approach to caring for. cancer patients,.

- Howard Wolinsky

Gary Schwitzer's HealthNewsReview Substack

Continuing the tradition of my old HealthNewsReview site - still helping people improve critical thinking about health care.

Gary is a force of nature. I have known him for years through HealthNewsReview. He is a needed critic of the medical-industrial complex and of the media and PR machines that serve it.

- Howard Wolinsky

Q.O.L.

By Brenna Humphreys

My husband and I share research and learnings from his prostate cancer experience.

Brenna is a fresh voice in the prostate cancer space in Substackdom. Her piece in the LA times was masterful this is a couple's disease and the partner's voice is finally being heard.

- Howard Wolinsky

Nutmeg’s Substack

By Hans Casteels

Welcome to Dispatch from the Oncology Underground. Prostate cancer, medical absurdity, and the slow-motion collapse of dignity, served with a side of dark humour and the occasional tofu recipe. If you like your truth inconvenient, yo

Hans is an excellent writer, who writes about hislife with prostate cancer and beyond.

- Howard Wolinsky

Vermiculations

By A/Prof Jeremy Grummet MD

Academic urologist at Monash University, Director of Urology at Alfred Health in Melbourne. Panel member of EAU Prostate Cancer Guidelines 2018-23. Authority on prostate cancer yet skeptical of authority. Scientifically question everything. Views my own.

Dr, Jeremy Grummet has been a true advocate for patients with prostate cancer. He has been a leader on adoption of transperineal biopsies in Australia and Europe. We need more physicians like Dr. Grummet to challenge accepted wisdom in urology and beyond. Vermiculations are worm tracks, Why not follow Dr. Grummet and where they lead us?

- Howard Wolinsky

Plant-Powered Prostate

By Julie Sochacki

step-by-step lifestyle medicine

The Barbershop: Dennis Byrne, Proprietor

By Dennis Byrne's Barbershop

Conservative news and views by a former liberal

Thin Ice

By Christopher Derrick

Quick quips about the creative life, the craft, and being a mensch from a TV writer, filmmaker, and comic book enthusiast! Plus: i want this to be an antidote to the loneliness of a creative.

Quick quips about the creative life, the craft, and being a mensch from a TV writer, filmmaker, and comic book enthusiast! Plus: i want this to be an antidote to the loneliness of a creative. Plus Thin Ice endorses me. I'm always on thin ice.

- Howard Wolinsky

Daily Medical Discoveries

By Matt Cook

Male health discoveries you won't hear anywhere else

Matt researches men's health and has loads of bits of info that could help you.

- Howard Wolinsky

Progressions: A deep look at prostate cancer

By Ben Nathanson

Deep dives on prostate cancer, patient to patient. How do our treatments work? How do they fail? What might be next for research?

Ben is a patient with smarts about advanced prostate cancer. Follow his journey.

- Howard Wolinsky

Prostate Cancer Secrets

By Keith R. Holden

A physician with advanced prostate cancer who is intolerant of the standard treatment shares some surprising facts about his journey.

The doctor shares some of the realities and surreality of having advanced prostate cancer. He is a brave and thoughtful doctor--and patient.

- Howard Wolinsky

GoozNews

By Merrill Goozner

Informed commentary on healthcare, public policy and politics

Merrill Goozner has healthcare and economic chops as former editot of Modern Healthcare and a Chicago Tribune correspondent in Asia. His Substack contains news and insights in these area, Definitely, worth a read.

- Howard Wolinsky

RetirementRevised

By Retirementrevised.com

Get the latest news and trends on retirement and aging. I focus mostly on personal finance, retirement planning, Social Security and Medicare and health.

Let's face it. Most of us with prostate cancer are retired retired or considering it. Check out Mark Miller's tips on retirement.

- Howard Wolinsky

The Active Surveillor

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