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…
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 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…
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…
Ask men who have put off getting tested what they were actually avoiding, and the answer is almost never the swab or the needle. It is the conversation. The moment of saying out loud why…
There is a particular frustration in being told that nothing is wrong when something clearly is. Chronic scrotal pain — an ache, a dragging heaviness, or a sharper pain in one or both testicles lasting…
The reason most men give for not getting tested is distance or time. The reason underneath that, more often than not, is a picture in their head of how the appointment will go — a…
Circumstances change. A man who was certain at thirty-four that his family was complete may be forty-two, in a new relationship, and facing a partner who wants a child. Or a couple who made the…
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…
