It might have started with a genuine scare — a colleague’s heart attack, a relative’s diagnosis, an abnormal result that turned out to be nothing. Since then a man finds himself checking. He palpates the…
For most of the last several decades syphilis was something Canadian physicians read about rather than diagnosed. That has changed. Rates have climbed substantially across Alberta and elsewhere in the country in recent years, including…
Testicular torsion is one of very few genuine emergencies in urology, and it is defined by time more than by anything else. The spermatic cord twists, the blood supply to the testicle is cut off,…
Penile cancer is genuinely rare in Canada, and most men will never encounter it. The difficulty is not how often it occurs but how long it typically takes to reach a physician. The average delay…
The consent conversation often happens at the least useful moment. A man has just been told he needs an operation, he is still absorbing the first half of what was said, and a form appears.…
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…
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…
