"How do you know whether that's an infection or something else. That's the type of thing we would hope to explain" Dr. Vaughan of New York-Presbyterian Hospital Weill Cornell Medical Center runs through many common questions patients have, for themselves and for doctors, about urology.

Do you really want to give that kidney away? Is your wife worried, you're a perfectly healthy person, but you love your sister, and you'd like for her to have that kidney.



We hope to identify questions that patients will have, concerns they have, and we explain to you how we address these concerns, how we try to allay the fears, and say we'll start will renal transplantation. What's the danger, what's the excitement, what's the risk, is the kidney going to work? If you have prostate cancer, how do you treat it if it's local, do you treat it differently if it has spread. What do I tell my forty year old son? We have kidney cancer, what are the new drugs, what have we learned from some of the rare, inherited types of kidney cancer that have now taught us that they're abnormal blood vessels, and we have drugs to stop the growth of those blood vessels and stop the cancer. Or another way to look at it is to simply take a problem, you don't know you have kidney stone, but you do know you hurt, and how do you know that that's an infection, or something else. That's the type of thing we'd help explain.