Overcoming the very real fear of disease medicine and surgery can be difficult * This is a self-help book for the anxious. * Fear of the unknown plays a large role in generating medical patients' anxieties. * In order to allay the fears of those who dread medical interventions Adam Yamey shares his own experiences of suffering from a prostate problem and undergoing the surgery required to resolve it. Sparing the reader the goriest details he injects his graphic account with insight and witty observations.