Part 2 – An Atheist Checks into Gods Hotel In Part 1, I described my experiences visiting my father in the mental hospital when I was five years old and my desire to help him and other men like him. I met an iconoclastic doctor, Thomas Szasz, when I was in graduate school and
Part 1 I was five years old in 1949 when my uncle drove me to the mental hospital. I was confused and afraid. “Why do I have to go?” I asked Uncle Harry. He looked at me with his round face and kind eyes. “Your father needs you.” “What’s the matter with him?” I was
June is Men’s Health Month. It is a time for men and their families to take stock of their health and well-being. At MenAlive, we have been helping men and their families to improve their health for more than fifty years, but we still have a long way to go. According to Healthy Men, Inc.:
Part 3 In parts 1 and 2, I talked about the biological basis of gender-specific healthcare and quoted Marianne J. Legato, M.D., founder of the Foundation for Gender-Specific Medicine. She said, “We’ve acted as though men and women were essentially identical except for the differences in their reproductive function. In fact, information we’ve been
Part 2 In part 1, I described my own experiences with mainstream medicine and my interest in developing a more personalized way of offering healthcare for men and their families. I learned about the work of Dr. Marianne J. Legato when I read her book, Eve’s Rib: The New Science of Gender-Specific Medicine
I have been a marriage and family counselor for more than fifty years. There is a saying in the field, “Happy wife, happy life,” that suggests that women’s wellbeing is the key to a relationship’s success. But research from the emerging field of gender-specific medicine indicates that men’s health and wellbeing is the key factor
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