Many men dealing with changes in urination, ejaculation and/or erections suffer in silence, but one urologist says it shouldn’t be that way.

Dr. Pratik Desai of Potomac Urology is a fellowship-trained urologist with Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center. He wants to change the misconceptions many people have about urologists.


Katherine Mercurio Gotthardt is a poetry and prose writer who has lived in Prince William County since 1999. She has published six books and is working on a seventh. Learn more about her at KatherineGotthardt.com, and follow her work on Facebook by searching #KatherinesCoffeehouse.

This usually makes me laugh because I’m the last person who needs a reminder. You should see the pile in my family room right now.


Katherine Mercurio Gotthardt is a poetry and prose writer who has lived in Prince William County since 1999. She has published six books and is working on a seventh. Learn more about her at KatherineGotthardt.com, and follow her work on Facebook by searching #KatherinesCoffeehouse.

That’s what I tell myself when I want to procrastinate (which is too often). Quit messing around. Well, sometimes I use stronger language, but this is a family publication. It’s enough for you to know I give myself a stern talking-to, and then I sit down, and I do the hard work.


Katherine Mercurio Gotthardt is a poetry and prose writer who has lived in Prince William County since 1999. She has published six books and is working on a seventh. Learn more about her at KatherineGotthardt.com, and follow her work on Facebook by searching #KatherinesCoffeehouse.

Dictionaries say unknown origin, may be related to the sound of “snore.” Snooze, snore—is that how you’re getting through life?


WOODBRIDGE – (Press Release) Sentara Northern Virginia Medical Center will expand its services to patients and their families with the introduction of the Sentara Cancer Network Resource Center.

The team, surrounded by cancer survivors, celebrated the opening of the Sentara Cancer Network Resource Center with a ribbon cutting and cancer survivor celebration on Thursday, June 6, 2019, which culminated in a butterfly release.


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