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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
Penile cancer is genuinely rare in Canada, and most men will never encounter it. The difficulty is not how often it occurs but how long it typically takes to reach a physician. The average delay…
Two patterns show up repeatedly in men who come in about relationships, and on the surface they look like opposites. One man cannot tolerate being alone. He organises his life around a partner's moods, avoids…
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…
Kidneys are among the few organs that give no warning at all until a great deal of function has already gone. There is no ache, no change in how much a man passes, and no…
Skin problems on the penis have a particular ability to make men uneasy. A rash on an elbow gets shown to a doctor without a second thought; the same rash a few inches lower gets…
