The liver gives almost no warning. A man can drink heavily for fifteen years, feel entirely normal, pass a work medical, and have a liver that has been quietly changing the whole time. There is…
A line lets go on a rig. A vehicle rolls on an ice road. A man finds a coworker who did not survive, or holds pressure on an injury while waiting for help that takes…
A lab report is an awkward document. It arrives through a portal or in the mail, dense with abbreviations, decimal places and reference ranges, with a handful of values marked high or low in a…
It tends to be noticed first thing in the morning — a small amount of discharge, or a stain on the underwear, or a stinging sensation partway through the first urination of the day. Sometimes…
The stream weakens gradually enough that most men cannot say when it started. It takes longer, it splits or sprays, it stops and restarts, and eventually there is a sense that the bladder never quite…
A man who quit smoking five years ago and now goes through a vape pod every day or two will often say, without irony, that he does not use nicotine any more. Another keeps pouches…
A man in his late forties is asked who he would call at two in the morning if something went badly wrong. He thinks about it for a while and answers: his wife. Asked who…
Most men last thought about vaccination in a school gymnasium. After that the subject disappears, apart from the occasional tetanus shot in an emergency department after a nail through a boot, and the annual flu…
Few findings in medicine have changed the lived experience of a condition as completely as this one, and few are as poorly known outside the people directly affected. The short version is that a person…
Overactive bladder rearranges a man's life quietly. He knows where the washrooms are on every route he drives. He stops drinking anything after mid-afternoon so the night is manageable. He picks the aisle seat, declines…
