The Surgeon Who Healed Himself: Dr. Harry Black on What Doctors Aren't Telling Men About Their Health

Mind Over Masculinity · Jul 4, 2026 · 27m

Most men don't visit a doctor until something is seriously wrong. And even then, they take the prescription, follow the orders, and trust the system to know best. But what happens when the man inside the system, the one with 36 years as a surgeon, gets sick himself and discovers that the textbook didn't have all the answers?

In this episode of Mind Over Masculinity, Nazish sits with Dr. Harry H. Black, a retired general and trauma surgeon who reversed his own type 2 diabetes and walked through a high-grade prostate cancer diagnosis with a path he didn't learn in medical school. This is the…