Physician Focus, July 2007: Men’s Health
Men’s Health
Research has shown that men get sicker and die earlier than women. Males also account for nearly 10 times the number of occupational injuries and more than four times the number of suicides than women. And males also die prematurely at higher rates than women as a result of engaging in risky behaviors, such as smoking, excessive use of alcohol and drugs, and lack of seat belt usage. Yet males are nearly twice as likely not to have a usual source of health care.
What’s causing this disparity? And what can men – and their families – do to reverse the trend?
Host: John Fromson, M.D., Chairman of Psychiatry, MetroWest Medical Center
Guests: David Dodson, M.D., Chair, Massachusetts Medical Society Committee on Men’s Health; Primary Care Physician, Marino Center, Wellesley
Peter Tiffany, M.D., Mystic Valley Urological Associates, Stoneham
Co-produced with Hopkinton Community Access Television, HCAM-TV, Hopkinton Mass.
Listen to the podcast (Length 13:14) (This will open your computer’s default media player in a new window)
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