We have all seen the commercials. A happy couple holding hands, sitting in bathtubs, and a voice over saying, “Are you ready.”
Now, thanks to Pfizer, the maker of Viagra, erectile dysfunction (ED) has become the topic of jokes and dinner table conversations.
In a way, this is a good thing – not impotence, but the conversation.
For years, impotence was a source of shame and fear. People wrote this sort of a problem off to stress or performance anxiety. It has been the butt of jokes for television comedies and plays, dating back to before Shakespeare.
Dr Randy Kiewe is the founder and Medical Director of CompleteCare Cardiology in Lake Success, NY. He is a Fellow of the American College of Cardiology and is Board Certified in Cardiology and Nuclear Cardiology. He has a special interest in Men’s Heart Disease and is a frequent consultant to the Urologists at the Arthur Smith Institute for Urology and private Urologists across Long Island and Queens.
