Two patterns show up repeatedly in men who come in about relationships, and on the surface they look like opposites. One man cannot tolerate being alone. He organises his life around a partner's moods, avoids…
A Peace Country summer is short, and the work does not pause for it. Men on rigs, in the trades, on farms and on road crews put in long days in heat that the region…
Producing a sample for a semen analysis is, for most men, the least dignified part of trying to have a child. Then a report arrives full of terms like motility, morphology and concentration, with some…
A layoff. A separation. A diagnosis. A move, a demotion, a death in the family, the end of a rotation that had structured the last eight years. Something changes, and a few weeks later a…
Most men can describe their father's work history in detail and could not say what he was treated for after sixty. The information exists — it is sitting with a parent, an uncle, an older…
Bladder cancer has one of the strongest occupational associations of any cancer, and one of the longest delays between exposure and disease. The chemicals responsible — aromatic amines and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons among them —…
Sexual health screening tends to be treated as a young man's concern. It is offered in a man's twenties, occasionally in his thirties, and then quietly drops off the list — not through any deliberate…
Most men notice it in the shower or while getting dressed: a soft bulge low in the groin, sometimes extending toward the scrotum, that appears when standing or straining and disappears on lying down. There…
Ask men who have put off getting tested what they were actually avoiding, and the answer is almost never the swab or the needle. It is the conversation. The moment of saying out loud why…
A good number of men arrive at a urology appointment having already concluded that the matter is closed. They tried one of the oral medications, perhaps a sample from a friend or something ordered online,…
