Real men don't go to the doctor. But intelligent men do. HealthDay reports on research conducted at Rutgers Univeristsy that attempted to determine if the male macho attitude was really the major force that kept men from visiting doctors. The answer: yep. It is. Middle-aged men who are most devoted to traditional beliefs about
masculinity are half as likely as other men to get routine medical care.
HealthDay reports that the researchers examined of 1,000 white, middle-aged men in Wisconsin, who answered questions
about their beliefs regarding masculinity and disclosed whether they'd
gotten recommended annual physicals, prostate checks and flu shots. After adjusting for such things as a high number of married participants,
researchers found that men who were the highest believers in masculine
standards were 50 percent less likely to get the recommended care than
other men. HealthDay reports one happy exception to the rule: Blue-collar workers who had a high attachment to masculinity were more likely to get the recommended
health care.
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I have always tried to buck the trend and have made the trek to get an annual physical. My beef is that the only thing that the doc does is to read the numbers off the blood tests. Cholesterol is too high, take some drugs. Blood pressure is boderline, take some drugs. They don’t even wack your knee with the little hammer any more, just read the numbers off the lab report and poke your prostate if they feel like it.
The place that I go is state of the art, everything they do is cutting edge, they ask all the right questions, but all they want to do is push pills. Maybe this is the new preventative approach, but I really don’t like it.
I say that my knee hurts and unless I am in agony, it’s no big deal to them. Not feeling like you’re nineteen in the bedroom department and they just assume that your wrangling for a rx for some Viagra. Anything that I ask about is not a big deal.
Just take some drugs to get your numbers all lined up with the drug companies recommendations and shut up about the rest.
I don’t blame these guys for not going, I’m not sure that it really makes a difference.
Can’t afford to pay doctor or hospital because of pay child support and my life like double cost both of bewteen mother child and I live here more cost like 2,000 a month. Now what I got lay off been work for 16 years. god too risk for me and proble with hurracine coming will get risk with money no way. I am tight money until child support are over it. then start over late age. can’t afford doctor sometime I got bad swelling,cough,sick,and etc. I had nothing to do with my life. Never believe in court about child support again. because she cheat on me. I am screw up anything. I can’t go doctor anymore.
Its not the masculinity but the fact we do not want to spend the money.
There are several reasons this guy doesn’t go, ordinarily, to the doctor:
1. If you are symptom free, there is no supporting evidence that an annual physical is of any value.
2. I spent 20 years working in hospitals among some of the most evil personalities I have ever been exposed to, most of them M.D.s
3. It is an unnecessary expense.
4. It is perfunctory. No sense in saying, “I’ve got an ear ache,” only to hear the Dr. reply, “That’s right, that’ll be $125.00.
5. Dr.s think everyone else is stupid. I’m not.
6. There’s no point in waiting a half-hour for someone who is angry because he has scheduled more work for himself than he can do.
7. I know more about pharmacotherapy than they do.
8. I’m not into nurturing egos which need it to live.
9. I’ve heard far too many of them say, “I can’t prescribe for a person over the telephone,” (read: I want money for an office visit.) then watch the same MD do exactly that for a hospitalized patient.
10. I’ve never believed an “M.D.” after your one’s name entitled them to great wealth.