Medical Town Meetings, Diabetes Series At Danbury Hospital

By JOHN VOKET

Published: Sep 22, 2006 12:00 am

DANBURY â Danbury Hospital kicks off its autumn Medical Town Meeting series this month with a program focusing on sports-related injuries September 25 at 7 pm. The talk, entitled: âDonât Get Sidelined: Advances in Treating Sports-Related Injuries,â will feature a panel of orthopedic specialists from Danbury Hospital discussing injuries that can happen to competitive runners as well as weekend warriors, occasional visitors to the gym and teenage athletes.

The panel will include:

Ã©Craig Foster, MD, Danbury Hospital Center for Advanced Orthopedic Care and practicing physician with Danbury Orthopedic Associates, discussing injuries to the upper extremities.

Ã©James DePuy, MD, Danbury Hospital Center for Advanced Orthopedic Care and practicing physician with Connecticut Family Orthopedics, talking about caring for injured athletes on the field.

Ã©Ross Henshaw, MD, director, Sports Medicine Program, Danbury Hospital Center for Advanced Orthopedic Care, and practicing physician with Danbury Orthopedic Associates, addressing the issue of athletes using performance enhancement drugs.

The hospitalâs autumn Medical Town Meeting series continues the following day with a topic of interest to most men â prostate problems.

âUpdate on New Treatments for Benign Prostatic Hypersplasia (BPH) and Prostate Cancerâ takes place September 26 at 7 pm at Danbury Hospital.

A panel of urologic and cancer specialists from Danbury Hospital will discuss the new medical and surgical treatments for BPH, a noncancerous enlargement of the prostate, and prostate cancer.

The panel will include:

Ã©William Hennessey MD, Danbury Hospital Department of Surgery, Section of Urology, Urology Associates of Danbury PC.

Ã©John Spera, MD, Danbury Hospital Department of Radiology, Section of Radiation Oncology.

They will discuss the medical and surgical treatments for prostate enlargement, surgical management of prostate cancer, and radiation therapy approach to the treatment of prostate cancer.

To register to attend the town meetings, call toll free, 866-374-0007. For more information about Danbury Hospital community health and wellness programs and services, go to www.danburyhospital.org, or call the Marketing and Public Relations Department, 797-7247.

In other news, Danbury Hospital will offer the next series of free Wednesday evening diabetes education classes. The classes take place at Danbury Hospital, 24 Hospital Avenue on Wednesday, October, 4, 11, and 18 in the Fifth Floor, South Building conference room from 6 to 8 pm.

Diabetes education classes are geared toward group learning, and are not intended for individual counseling. The goal of the classes is to help patients and family members gain an understanding of the relationship between blood sugars, activity, and eating habits in order to successfully manage diabetes.

Space is limited, and preregistration is required to attend the diabetes education classes. For more information and to register, call Joyce Morrison, Danbury Hospital Food and Nutrition Services, at 797-7418.

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Sorry Lynn, not letting you get away with this. Yes, we all have the constitutional right to demonstrate peacefully but NO, no one ever said anything about taking that right away. You just made it up.

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A small Newtown business lost important revenue because of the protest. Traffic was disrupted causing a safety concern. Newtown taxpayers paid for police OT because the PD had to react to the protest rather than be prepared in advance. God forbid, if there was loss of life or property, Newtown could be liable legally for negligence. Your comment sounds like Liberal Woke thinking and apparently you are more sympathetic to protestors than to Newtown. Non-issue? In Kerrville TX the legislative body had the chance to vote for a flash flood siren warning system. They thought it was a non-issue. Now, over 200 people are dead and families are destroyed. No way does the town not get expensively buried in court should it be foolish enough to NOT go down this path.

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Hi David, I did not ignore anyone. I presented 4 quantifiable advantages and one intangible that an ordinance addressing protests would benefit Newtown. That was my only standard. No one that came to the meeting including the other LC members provided any argument to over come those benefits and remember, the threshold was set extremely low. The only thing the LC was voting on was to "just consider" if an ordinance would be in order. Get over the "stadium" joke. It is scandalous that you don't have the mental capacity to understand it was a joke. Remember when I asked to meet with you for breakfast to see in we could compromise on some of your many complaints? I am sure could have found compromises but apparently the word "compromise" is not a part of your vocabulary. Either is acting like an adult. By the way, the intangible...that was to provide protection for you and your family, God forbid, that you were protesting and someone came barreling through the crowd in a car. My point was you always plan for worst case scenario, not best case scenario. In Kerrville TX, the legislative body had the chance to vote to put a flash flood warning siren in place. Someone like you probably thought they didn't need it. Now over 200 people are dead. Nothing bad could ever happen in Newtown right?

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