Men who come in asking about low testosterone usually arrive with a list of symptoms: no energy, no drive, difficulty putting on muscle, low mood, poor concentration. It is a reasonable list and it points…
A man who has put on twenty pounds over a decade generally knows it, and generally has a plan involving January. What he is less likely to know is whether any of it matters medically,…
Medication lists grow by accretion. A blood pressure tablet started at forty-five, something for reflux added by a walk-in clinic, an anti-inflammatory taken most days for a back that never fully settled, a statin after…
The appointment was booked for something else. A refill, a work medical, a sore shoulder. The other thing — the lump, the leaking, the blood, the fact that sex has stopped working — was rehearsed…
For a man working a rotation, living two hours out of town, or trying to arrange something without taking half a day off, a virtual appointment can be the difference between getting care and continuing…
A referral can feel like a letter dropped into a void. You leave an appointment having been told that a specialist will be in touch, and then weeks pass with no word. Nobody explains who…
Men who work outdoors through a Peace Country winter develop a working knowledge of cold that no article can improve on. They know what minus forty with a wind feels like, how long a task…
A man is treated for chlamydia, takes the antibiotics exactly as directed, and the symptoms clear. Six weeks later they are back. The conclusion he usually draws is that the treatment failed or that something…
Priapism is an erection that persists beyond about four hours, or one unrelated to sexual arousal, and it is a urological emergency. Blood becomes trapped in the erectile tissue, oxygen supply falls, and the tissue…
Hearing loss from noise does not announce itself. There is no pain, no single moment of damage in most cases, and no day on which a man notices he is hearing less. What happens instead…
