The most common way psychiatric medication ends is not a plan. It is a man who has been feeling steady for several months, who never much liked being on it, who runs out on a…
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…
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…
Overactive bladder rearranges a man's life quietly. He knows where the washrooms are on every route he drives. He stops drinking anything after mid-afternoon so the night is manageable. He picks the aisle seat, declines…
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…
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…
