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Dear Dr. Roach: I am a 62-year-old male who gets weekly testosterone injections. My semiannual blood work comes back fine. I have no side-effects except that I lose my temper with people easier now. I have a little more energy and sex drive.

Are you scheduled for surgery? If so, there are ways to circumvent horrendous surgical errors. We鈥檝e all heard stories about surgeons amputating the wrong leg. Or fixing a hernia on the side that didn鈥檛 need it.

Dear Dr. Roach: I was diagnosed with endometrial cancer about seven weeks ago. I had a complete hysterectomy four weeks ago. The pathology report came back as 鈥淪tage 1, Grade 3, size 4.

Dear Dr. Roach: I am a healthy 58-year-old woman. One year ago, I was sitting on a friend鈥檚 porch when suddenly it was as if someone had poured thick oil over my left eye.

Dear Dr. Roach: After having several strange-looking 鈥減imples鈥� on my thighs and one on my face, I was told it is lymphomatoid papulosis. One or two people in a million are diagnosed with this.

Have you ever heard of UTI (urinary tract infection) Drops? I doubt it, as these natural herbal drops have just recently been imported from Europe to treat troublesome, acute and chronic E. coli urinary tract infection.

Dear Dr. Roach: I was a registered nurse for more than 45 years, and I admit that I am old-school. I specialized in emergency-room and cardiac care.

Dear Dr. Roach: For the past several months, I鈥檝e had problems in my right eye. The eye was bloodshot and painful, and vision was blurry. I was diagnosed with uveitis, and the doctors didn鈥檛 know why it happened.

Dear Dr. Roach: Radiation can be used to treat cancer, but I鈥檝e heard that radiation from too many CT scans and X-rays can cause cancer. What is the difference? I鈥檓 72 and have had close to 25 CT scans over the years, mostly of my sinuses.

In Thunder Bay, Ont., recently, while giving a talk, I suddenly found my mouth watering. I mentioned that I was just 250 kilometres away from Quetico Park, where I had spent two months alone years ago doing fish research.