Dr. Edgar Guarín began performing vasectomies after noticing how many men rely on their female partners to handle for long-lasting contraception.
To encourage more men to undergo vasectomies, Dr. Edgar Guarín answers all patient questions himself and has a thorough website with information about the procedure.“After 2017 in Mexico, I came back from that experience and I kept thinking this will be a terrific idea in the United States,” Guarín, a family medicine physician from Iowa, tells TODAY.com.
“I got tired of seeing the lack of participation of men in contraception,” Guarín says. “It made me think that I needed to drop everything else and just focus on making it as simple as possible for men to access vasectomies and elevate their decisions so that we can change the mentality of men.” Dr. Edgar Guarín hopes that more men begin to see vasectomy as a solution to long-term contraception.“There are numerous emasculating jokes about the procedure itself,” he says. “They feed into that negative narrative of the participation of men in contraception because they portray that participation as a sacrifice, which it’s not. It’s a 10-minute procedure. It’s the least that can do when we have the most joyful part in reproduction.
That’s why answering questions and providing information puts many patients at ease. He also allows people to schedule online, which makes a huge difference. Men can make the appointment right when they’re researching vasectomies. “My philosophy is here is that no one else should be calling other than the surgeon,” he says. “Patients have said before they don’t want to be talking to anybody else other than the guy who’s going to be grabbing their testicles with sharp instruments. So by doing that, you put them at ease and you give them full information.”
“I did see a 20 to 25% increase in the number of men in their 30s who had already decided not to have children … but they have done nothing about it, and they were relying on their partners’ contraception,” he says. “Many of them mentioned to me that they felt if the birth control pill failed, if they IUD failed, they could not rely on abortion.”
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