Comment on editorial

[Dr. A. N. Feliciano]

Sir,
I agree with the Editorial part 1, that more research on prostate disease
should be done. Prostate cancer and BPH has been well researched and
advances has been made, but the treatment is almost always surgical. Some
urologist are now implicating chronic prostatitis to be related to both
disease.
TO GET A MEANINGFUL RESEARCH ON PROSTATITIS, the urologists MUST FIRST GET
THEIR ACTS TOGETHER. How can they when they don't even agree on the
ETIOLOGY (CAUSE), CLASSIFICATION, DIAGNOSIS, AND TREATMENT (read my web
page).
My first book was published in 1982, followed by the 2nd edition in 1992,
US edition, 1992 and the third edition, 1993, and now my web page, where I
exposed this confusion among the urologists, NOT ONE DOCTOR HAS COME OUT TO
DISPUTE WHAT I HAVE EXPOSED, BECAUSE I HAVE QUOTED ONE UROLOGIST AFTER
ANOTHER CONTRADICTING THEMSELVES. They continue to be complacent, the I
don't care attitude and take the easy way out to push their patient to be
prostatodynic (psychological pain in the prostate) AND RECENTLY THE "FOUR
MONTH RULE" an excuse of the doctor for his failure. BACTERIAL PROSTATITIS
will be treated with single antibiotics (or even triple, I am using up to 6
to 8 antibiotic now) for weeks and months, but will recur, and retreated
AND RECUR. NONBACTERIAL PROSTATITIS will be treated symptomatically BY HOT
SITZ BATH, AVOIDANCE OF FOODS AND ALCOHOL THAT MAKES OUR LIFE SPICY, which
may help relieved or diminish the symptoms only to recur. Now the victims
themselves are taking urine or Kit Kat something or zinc, or worst, go to
Manila and as Ken Smith wrote, "waste your time and money." I have exposed
charlatans in my country in this unethical practice and one doctor has lost
his license and attempted to have me assassinated (documented by the
Philippine Medical Association and the Phil. Army). I have lectured to
almost all the medical society in my country, but the urological
association has studiously ignore the facts and controversies I presented,
yet some of them are now using my protocol, claiming credit for my
research, including the other F.
To study a disease is for the doctors to agree on the cause,
classification, diagnosis. Then find the best method of treatment, which
will require clinical study on the results of thousands or the least
hundreds of patients treated and followed up for years.
I agree with Mike Kim's suggestion of sending a urologist to study my
method (not the pretender's as Brad Hennenfent did).
SELF SERVING, HELL, WHAT DO I OR YOU CARE IF IT RESULTS IN YOUR CURE !
Dr. Antonio Novak Feliciano