Recommendation of a Strategy

The Key is to Understand Men and not be bound by existing Paradigms of Care

Overview

"Medicine can cure some diseases, it can ease pain, it can bring comfort. But it will never alter the human condition, or relieve men of their responsibility."

Theodore Dalrymple

John Donne

There are too many Examples of men, that have been made

their own executioners, and that have made hard shrift to bee

so; some have alwayes had poyson about them, in a hollow

ring upon their fingers, and some in their Pen that they use to

write with; some have beat out their braines at the wal of their

prison, and some have eate of the fire out of their chimneys;

But I do nothing upon my selfe, and yet am mine owne

Executioner.

The Present Situation

Men are ill served by Medicine when well Men are well served by Medicine when sick Men are not patient creatures Men are not necessarily interested in staying

well Men are not women Men are not all the same

Development up to present

Men Cared for in a Feminised Model Men Infantalised Men find Surgeries Threatening Men’s need for Privacy ignored

Potential Alternatives

State the alternative strategies List the pros and cons of each strategy Give a forecast of costs

Alternative strategies

Mens Sheds More Research More Advertising More Focussed Advertising Medicine in the Pub Continue to Engage as We Do

Shakespeare

All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages.

Mothers to blame

At first, the infant,

Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms.

Psychiatrists/Paediatricians Creep As Well

With Parents and Teachers

And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel

And shining morning face, creeping like snail Unwillingly to school.

Love

And then the lover, Sighing like furnace, with a woeful ballad Made to his mistress' eyebrow.

Fire, First Job, Uni, Peers, Grog, Substances

Then a soldier, Full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth.

Success or Failure

And then the justice, In fair round belly with good capon lined, With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances; And so he plays his part.

Existential Issues

The sixth age shifts Into the lean and slipper'd pantaloon, With spectacles on nose and pouch on side, His youthful hose, well saved, a world too wide For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice, Turning again toward childish treble, pipes And whistles in his sound.

Can I Start Again

Last scene of all, That ends this strange eventful history, Is second childishness and mere oblivion, Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans

everything.

Lastly Sick

Men

Children Lonely

Youth Angry

Gay Sad

Bi Depressed

Young mature Poor

Parent In Pain

Single Employed

Divorced Unemployed

Unfaithful Rich

Faithful Indigenous/ Multicultural

Grandparents SickNursing Home