TELLURIDE – A New York Times headline from August asked “ What does it take to get men to see a doctor? ” Penned by a physician, the article explored why men die 5.3 years earlier than women.

“Without meaningful change, the health care system will keep meeting men only after they are already sick — when treatment is harder, outcomes worse and lives are more likely to be cut short,” wrote Dr. Helen Ouyang, whose time in emergency rooms was filled with men who had ignored troubling symptoms, many of them crowing that they had not seen a doctor in years.

“Why do we do that?” asks David Holbrooke, a Telluride filmmaker who convened the first meeting of the Telluride Men’s Health Club last week as the first step in building a regular gathering and online repository for local men to talk

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