HIV Testing for Men: Why Knowing Your Status Changes Everything
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…
Health Anxiety in Men: When Worry About Illness Becomes the Illness
2 September, 2026 Anxiety Disorders Dr. Isaac Klein Dr. Raymond Nash Health Anxiety Obsessive 7:50 am
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…
Understanding Syphilis: Stages, Symptoms, and Why Testing Matters
30 August, 2026 Canada Dr. Raymond Nash Health Loss Medical Men's Health Self Sexual Health sti Symptoms syphilis 2:20 pm
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: The Emergency That Can’t Wait Until Morning
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,…
Hydration, Heat, and Physical Work: Staying Safe on Site
15 August, 2026 dehydration Dr. Raymond Nash heat exhaustion heat stress heat stroke hydration 4:35 pm
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…
Understanding Adjustment Disorder: When Life Changes Overwhelm You
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…
STI Testing at Any Age: Sexual Health Doesn’t Retire
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…
Understanding Inguinal Hernia in Men: Signs, Repair, and Recovery
Most men notice it in the shower or while getting dressed: a soft bulge low in the groin, sometimes extending toward the scrotum, that appears when standing or straining and disappears on lying down. There…
Breaking the Shame Cycle: Why Men Delay STI Testing
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…
ED Medications Compared: How They Work and What to Ask Your Doctor
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…