Stories of Urology
People, inventions and patients that changed our specialty, told in short videos.
A series by Dr Fernando Gómez Sancha, urologist and Medical Director at ICUA (Clínica CEMTRO, Madrid). A new episode on YouTube every Sunday.
All episodes
Edward Gibbon: The Historian Who Hid His Illness for 32 Years
Willem Kolff's Artificial Kidney: The Machine That Bought a Comatose Patient Time
The Patient Who Devised His Own Silver Catheter: Keyvan Bey and His Bladder Stone
The Emperor and the Wax Candle: Charles V, His Surgeon and a Secret Stolen Twice
They Removed a Healthy Kidney and She Lived to Tell It: The First Planned Nephrectomy
A Finger and an Orange: Peter Freyer and the Birth of Prostate Enucleation
The church and the modern cystoscope, a story of Maximilian Nitze
Per Teodor Cleve: The Story of Thulium and Holmium
Benjamin Franklin and the Flexible Catheter: An Unexpected Story
A Clock Spring to Remove a Bladder Stone: The Story of Francken
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