The building of my own online personal health record continues.

I’m at ihealthrecord.com’s "Add Conditions and Patient’s Medical History" page, where I’m asked to "select current and past Conditions and Diagnoses. You do not need to list Allergies here. For Allergies, please use the Allergies section of the iHealthRecord."

Well, shoot. You mean you can wait to hear about how penicillin makes me, as my mother puts it — describing the one and only time I received the wonder drug at age 2 — "swell up like a blowfish"?

Fine; you’ll have something to look forward to.

The medical history page lists a cornucopia of different diseases, conditions, habits and psychiatric disorders, from the serious:

    Polio
    Lung Cancer
    Alzheimer’s disease
    Syphilis
    Stroke

to the, well, not-so-serious:

    Warts
    Acne
    Athlete’s Foot
    Birthmarks

as well as what I would call "bad habits that could lead to a serious disorder":

    Smoking
    Drinking
There’s no listing on this page of what I would call "good habits that might mitigate the ‘bad habits that could lead to a serious disorder,’ or at the least allow you to say ‘Yes, well, I may smoke, but I run 10 miles a day.’"
 
Next comes a "Females Only" section that offers the following for consideration: abnormal pap, discomfort with sex, tubal pregnancy, bleeding problems, breast mass or cyst, contraception, cyst or abscess of vulva, endrometriosis, fibroids, irregular periods, menopause, miscarriage, nipple discharge, ovarian cysts, post-menopausal bleeding, postpartum depression, pregnancy, toxemia.

Next is the "Males Only" section which lists (are you ready?): prostrate problems.

And that’s it for the fellas.

Now, I ask you, is that fair?

Be a woman filling out this page and all the ob/gyn appointments, all the mammograms, all the pap smears, all the visits on all of the examining tables with the all of the stirrups and all of the "could you scooch forward just a little bit more please," they all come rushing back.

But if you’re a man: "Prostrate problems? Nope. Never. Nada. Not me. On to the next page."

Not fair, not fair at all….