Patrick C. Walsh, M.D.

Patrick C. Walsh, M.D., urologist-in-chief at Johns Hopkins Hospital and director of the Department of Urology at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine is the surgeon who created the Nerve-Sparing Technique (also known as the Walsh procedure), which has made it possible to preserve potency in men who lose their prostate.

Books
	Dr. Patrick Walsh's Guide to Surviving Prostate Cancer What is the prostate? The prostate is a small, and probably expendable, organ. Men can live quite comfortably without it. The prostate's biggest job, as far as we know, is to provide part of the fluid that makes up semen.