Almost nobody sets out to become dependent on a benzodiazepine. The prescription usually starts for a good reason — a period of severe anxiety, panic attacks, insomnia after a bereavement, a rough stretch that needed…
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…
Cannabis occupies an odd space in the conversation about men's health. It has been legal in Canada for years, it is widely used, and the public discussion still tends to split into two unhelpful camps…
Asked how he is feeling, a man says fine. Pressed, he says he does not know. This is often taken as evasion — by partners, by clinicians, sometimes by the man himself, who assumes he…
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…
Two patterns show up repeatedly in men who come in about relationships, and on the surface they look like opposites. One man cannot tolerate being alone. He organises his life around a partner's moods, avoids…
A layoff. A separation. A diagnosis. A move, a demotion, a death in the family, the end of a rotation that had structured the last eight years. Something changes, and a few weeks later a…
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…
A good number of men arrive at a urology appointment having already concluded that the matter is closed. They tried one of the oral medications, perhaps a sample from a friend or something ordered online,…
The oral medications for erectile dysfunction are among the most recognisable drugs in the world, and also among the most misunderstood. Men arrive at appointments having already formed firm opinions about them — that they…
