A recent survey bears Dunn out. While four out of five women reported having a regular doctor, only two of three men did. The Commonwealth Fund's analysis of men's health-seeking habits illustrates the growing interest in the subject. May's Journal of American College Health was devoted to men's health - a first for a professional journal. As Will Courtenay and Richard Keeling write in the issue's opening editorial, little came of the first scholarly writings on men's health nearly 30 years ago.
Most men are more powerful than women at every level of social and economic class.
Rep. Randy Cunningham, R-Calif., would like to correct that. This month, Cunningham introduced a bill in Congress to set up an Office of Men's Health in the Department of Health and Human Services. After all, he reasons, women have their own HHS office. For Dunn, bleeding, cracked hands finally drove him to see a doctor. Typing had become painful, and that's how Dunn, a technical writer by day and a screenwriter by night, earns his livelihood.