Why, oh why, is it so difficult to get struggling, wriggling men to see their doctors? Wives, daughters and sisters wish to know! It is an age-old quandary, confirmed all over again by recent research from the Cleveland Clinic in the US, which reports that 65 per cent of men “tend to wait as long as possible to see their doctor if they have any health symptoms or an injury.”
In my house, the scenario generally plays out like this: “Ambrose, your head is falling off.”
“Oh, is it?”
Cursory glance in the mirror. “Yeah, I guess so.”
“Well, don’t you think you should go to the doctor?”
“I should, for sure.”
Two days later: “Ambrose, your head remains connected to your neck by one sinew. Did you phone the…