Anabolic Steroid Use: The Risks Beyond the Gym
Anabolic steroid use is far more common than the number of men who mention it to a physician would suggest. It runs through gyms, through some trades, and through men in their thirties and forties…
Your First Psychiatric Appointment: What Actually Happens
22 June, 2026 Anxiety Depression Dr. Isaac Klein first psychiatric appointment Men's Mental Health Psychiatric Assessment 8:15 am
A fair number of men sit in the parking lot for a few minutes before a first mental health appointment. The apprehension is rarely about the problem that brought them in. It is about the…
Back Pain in Trades Work: Prevention, Treatment, and Red Flags
19 June, 2026 back pain Chronic Pain Dr. Raymond Nash low back pain mechanical back pain sciatica 1:10 pm
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…
Telling a Partner About an STI: How to Have the Conversation
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…
Balanitis and Penile Skin Health: Common Problems, Simple Fixes
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…
Functional Addiction: When You’re Still Holding It All Together
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…
Shift Work, Camp Rotations, and Your Mental Health
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…
Skin Cancer Checks for Outdoor Workers
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…
Mycoplasma genitalium: The STI Most Men Have Never Heard Of
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…
Understanding Acute Urinary Retention: A Urological Emergency Explained
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…