Back pain is close to universal in physical trades. Most men who lift, climb, twist under equipment or spend twelve hours in a truck seat will have at least one episode that stops them for…
The antibiotic is usually the easy part. Men leave an STI appointment with a treatment plan and a clear sense of what happens next medically, and then sit in the truck for twenty minutes trying…
Skin problems on the penis have a particular ability to make men uneasy. A rash on an elbow gets shown to a doctor without a second thought; the same rash a few inches lower gets…
The mental picture most men carry of addiction involves someone who has lost everything — the job, the licence, the house, the family. Measured against that, a man who gets up at five, works a…
The rotation has its own rhythm and most men working one know it well. The first few days back at camp are fine. By the middle of the hitch the days have flattened into each…
A man who has spent twenty years on lease roads, drilling sites, roofs or equipment has accumulated more ultraviolet exposure than almost anyone who deliberately sunbathes. It arrives in small daily instalments rather than in…
A familiar pattern turns up in men's health clinics. A man has burning with urination and perhaps a small amount of discharge. He is tested for chlamydia and gonorrhea, both come back negative, and he…
It is one of the few urological problems that cannot be ignored or put off until a day off work. A man finds he cannot pass urine at all. The bladder keeps filling, the urge…
Two objections come up more or less every time opioid agonist therapy is raised. The first is that it amounts to trading one drug for another. The second is that it means being tied to…
Most men in this situation do not use the word abuse. They describe a partner with a temper, or say things get heated, or explain that they are just not very good at handling conflict.…
