Yes, about thirty-five years ago I was together with Bob Grimlot when the Menopause Society was created. When I retired from my clinical work at the Sheba Medical Center in Israel seven years ago, I decided that we men are underprivileged. Men live seven years less than women live, and men have health problems and rarely are not aware of them. Women go for prevention, and women are trained for prevention. Women have their gynecologists and confidantes, and they can talk with them about many, many personal things.
Men don t have a men s health physician.
They go to the urologist for repair, and they go to the internist for repair. You shouldn t be like a girl running because you have some pain. They re healthy when they go during their pregnancy to the obstetrician in order to have a healthy and good pregnancy, and they go with their child to the pediatrician in order to keep the child healthy. About 300 people came to the first World Congress together with the World Health Organization in Geneva. This year in February of 2000, we had 750 people come, and the next Congress will be in Berlin in 2002, and we expect about 1,500 people.