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
Part 1 “We’ve had a unisex vision of the human genome. Men and women are not equal in our genome and men and women are not equal in the face of disease.” —David C. Page, MD, Massachusetts Institute of Technology In September 1965 checked into my room at U.C. San Francisco Medical School. I
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