I have an appointment for my annual exam with a doctor who has been seeing me since 1983 (he was the park dive physician when I was an active SCUBA diver) and he knows me well, both my medical history and my lifestyle choices, as well as my end of life concerns. I don't pick doctors at random.
My annual physical last year resulted in a major procedure from which I am fully recovered, thanks to Ed's choice of the doctors to which I was referred. All in all it was a very positive experience.
Any of us bears the ultimate responsibility for our health and well being, particularly through our life style choices, as well as the strategic and tactical decisions made as we face medical situations. A good doctor who knows us well is a valued partner in choosing good courses of action. That kind of doctor is less likely to pop pills just so they can get to the next case.
In my mid 70s, the only medication i take is a daily baby aspirin. That is the result of good physician choice, reasonable lifestyle decisions, decent fenetics, and dumb luck.
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It's hard to not to do doctors if one wants a periodic checkup. Yet those checkups are important...too many serious problems don't show symptoms until they are
really serious...high blood pressure, high cholesterol, prostate, colo-rectal, lung and other cancers, etc. Many (most?) of those develop over time, i.e., one's health status is not static. Beyond the issue of early or 'in time' detection, some of these common problems have relatively high successful treatments.
Those that 'don't do doctors', meaning they don't do preventitive health care such as periodic physicals are irresponsible to themselves, their families, and society as a whole. They may indeed get away with it...but their quality of life will not meet its potential.
They even may not be able to hear the tick tick tick ...
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