Paul Daniel Shares Prostate Cancer Experience Online

Published on April 29, 2009

Paul Daniel Shares Prostate Cancer Experience Online

First to reveal his entire patient experience via social media

55- year-old Paul Daniel is presumably the first patient to share his very personal experience with prostate cancer - including surgery video - with the world via social media.

Starting shortly after his diagnosis in March, Daniel began videotaping his hospital and physician visits and posting them on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter. Soon he will also share video of his surgery. On Thursday, April 30, he will undergo a robotic prostatectomy at Waukesha Memorial Hospital to remove his prostate. Daniel will videotape his entire experience leading up to the surgery and will post it, along with video of his surgery, on YouTube, Facebook and Twitter.

Daniel wants to use his experience to educate other men about this disease. "If I can save one life by convincing someone about the importance of being tested, or allay the fears of even one man about surgery and treatment, it will be worth it," says Daniel. Prostate cancer is easily treated through such procedures as robotic prostatectomy. Waukesha Memorial Hospital has performed more robotic prostatectomies than any other hospital in southeastern Wisconsin.

Daniel's postings may also be the first time a patient has shared his real, uninfluenced, inside look at the hospital treatment experience from a patient's point of view.

"ProHealth Care is not viewing the video before he posts it and doesn't have any editorial influence over what the patient is doing," ProHealth Care Spokesperson Sandra Peterson says. "It's completely his honest and uninfluenced patient experience from diagnosis through surgery."

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