Author: Dr. Soarawee Weerasopone

Dr. Soarawee Weerasopone (Dr. Pom) is a board-certified urologist at Bangkok Hospital Headquarters, specializing in Men's Health, Robotic Surgery (da Vinci Xi) and Kidney Stone treatment. He is currently a Research Scholar and Clinical Observer at the Scott Department of Urology, Baylor College of Medicine (2025–2026), under Prof. Mohit Khera. He completed a Robotic Surgery Fellowship at Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taiwan (2019) and an Endourology Observership at Juntendo University Hospital, Tokyo (2022).

Bacteria in the Urine With No Symptoms: Who Actually Needs Antibiotics

A positive urine culture in someone who feels perfectly well is usually not an infection to treat. Two groups genuinely need antibiotics — and one very common situation, an older person with confusion, is where the mistake is most often made.

White Cells in the Urine With a Negative Culture: What Sterile Pyuria Actually Means

A urine test showing inflammation but growing no bacteria is not a failed antibiotic — it is a signal to look elsewhere. The two causes most often missed are a sexually transmitted infection and urinary tuberculosis.

Uric Acid Stones: The One Kidney Stone That Can Be Dissolved

Uric acid is the only stone that medication can actually dissolve. What that involves, why the stone type has to be proven first, the blood-potassium caution nobody mentions, and why these stones say something about your metabolism.

Paraphimosis: A Trapped Foreskin Is an Emergency — Go Now

A retracted foreskin that will not come forward tightens by the hour. It needs reducing the same day, not the next morning — and the commonest cause of all is a foreskin pulled back for a catheter and never put back.

Circumcision Stapler vs Conventional Circumcision: How They Compare

The stapler is faster, bleeds less and hurts less — and it costs more, suits fewer men, and has a complication profile of its own. An honest comparison rather than a verdict.

Short-Acting vs Long-Acting Testosterone Injection: How the Choice Is Made

Two injectable testosterone preparations, two quite different propositions. Dr. Soarawee Weerasopone explains how short-acting and long-acting testosterone injections differ, why only one of them can ever be given at home, and why the choice is a clinical decision rather than a menu.

Intermittent Testicular Torsion: Recurring Pain That Stops on Its Own

Sudden severe testicular pain that resolves within the hour and comes back weeks later. Because it settles by itself it gets dismissed — and because it settles by itself, the testicle can be fixed before the episode that does not.

HPV Testing in Men: What a Urine PCR Can Tell You, and What It Cannot

A urine sample instead of a swab, detecting 21 HPV types. Before asking for one, it is worth knowing that there is no screening programme for men, no treatment for a positive result, and that most infections clear by themselves.

The IPSS Explained: What Your Prostate Symptom Score Actually Means

The IPSS is the number that decides whether prostate symptoms are watched or treated. Dr. Soarawee Weerasopone explains what the seven questions cover, how the score is banded — and why the single question scored separately at the end often matters more than the other seven combined.

HPV Vaccination for Men: What It Protects Against, and What It Does Not

The nine-strain vaccine has effectively replaced the four-strain one. What it covers, why men benefit and not only their partners, and the two things it cannot do — clear an existing infection, or treat warts you already have.