Anyone in immediate danger should call 911. The 988 Suicide Crisis Helpline is available anywhere in Canada by call or text, 24 hours a day.This article covers something that sounds administrative and is one of…
The most common way psychiatric medication ends is not a plan. It is a man who has been feeling steady for several months, who never much liked being on it, who runs out on a…
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…
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…
The leave itself is difficult enough. What men often find harder is the week before returning. Sleep goes again. The old dread comes back on Sunday evening. There is a specific and very common worry…
A lab report is an awkward document. It arrives through a portal or in the mail, dense with abbreviations, decimal places and reference ranges, with a handful of values marked high or low in a…
Few findings in medicine have changed the lived experience of a condition as completely as this one, and few are as poorly known outside the people directly affected. The short version is that a person…
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…
A lot of what men believe about HIV was formed in the 1980s and 1990s and has not been updated since. The picture that comes to mind is a fatal illness, a wasting decline, a…
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…
