A man who has put on twenty pounds over a decade generally knows it, and generally has a plan involving January. What he is less likely to know is whether any of it matters medically,…
Medication lists grow by accretion. A blood pressure tablet started at forty-five, something for reflux added by a walk-in clinic, an anti-inflammatory taken most days for a back that never fully settled, a statin after…
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…
Pelvic floor training has a reputation problem among men. It is widely assumed to be something recommended after childbirth, and the exercises are usually explained in a single sentence at the end of an appointment:…
The liver gives almost no warning. A man can drink heavily for fifteen years, feel entirely normal, pass a work medical, and have a liver that has been quietly changing the whole time. There is…
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…
It tends to be noticed first thing in the morning — a small amount of discharge, or a stain on the underwear, or a stinging sensation partway through the first urination of the day. Sometimes…
Most men last thought about vaccination in a school gymnasium. After that the subject disappears, apart from the occasional tetanus shot in an emergency department after a nail through a boot, and the annual flu…
