I'm your doctor, not your mother

Earlier this week, 6minutes wrote some sympathetic pieces on men's health prompted by the MJA issue on the topic, and is totally in favour of encouraging people with Y chromosomes to come to the surgery.
However, one of the oft-mentioned suggestions to overcome men's avoidance of things medical always gets my goat - to "arrange special after-hours clinic times that are more accessible to men".

Of course, I haven't heard similar recommendations for specialists, but reading this again in the MJA had me wondering what century I'd been transported to.

Most women these days work, many have primary care of children, and the figures still show we do the majority of housework (although 6minutes household doesn't conform to this latter trend).
As a female GP with kids, the last thing I want to do is stay back working nights away from my own family, or paying a babysitter, so I can check the blood pressure of some guy who can't get it together to get off work an hour early for the sake of his own health. Without wanting to make it a competition, I've seen women struggle in for a pap smear with three squirming kids under four.
At some point, we all have to take responsibility for our own behaviour, health-related or otherwise. Sometimes, life just isn't convenient for men or women.