The word enabling gets used carelessly, usually as an accusation, and it has left a lot of families frightened that any act of kindness is making things worse. A father wonders whether paying his son's…
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…
The stream weakens gradually enough that most men cannot say when it started. It takes longer, it splits or sprays, it stops and restarts, and eventually there is a sense that the bladder never quite…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
The appointment where a man is told his prostate cancer has been treated successfully is supposed to be the end of the story. For a lot of men it is the start of a different…
