For a man working a rotation, living two hours out of town, or trying to arrange something without taking half a day off, a virtual appointment can be the difference between getting care and continuing…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The mental picture most men carry of addiction involves someone who has lost everything — the job, the licence, the house, the family. Measured against that, a man who gets up at five, works a…
The rotation has its own rhythm and most men working one know it well. The first few days back at camp are fine. By the middle of the hitch the days have flattened into each…
Most men in this situation do not use the word abuse. They describe a partner with a temper, or say things get heated, or explain that they are just not very good at handling conflict.…
The hardest part is rarely the day it is decided. It is the ordinary Tuesday six weeks later, in a rented place with almost nothing in it, on an evening that used to involve making…
