If your physical or checkup doesn't include an EKG, ask for one. Or ask for another doctor.

And not to be an ass-ache, butt remember your colonoscopy. (Sorry! Couldn't help myself!!!)

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Labs tomorrow. Separately, I get annual EKGs due to having atrial fibrillation (no limits on activity, but the heart just doesn't function super-efficiently with a floppy rhythm). George H.W. Bush had the same condition. By the way, he seems to have sometimes been a grouch due to his meds. The colon is looking fine, the esophagus is a mess. And of course a recent x-ray for a painful hip (a beach injury) revealed nothing the matter, apart from the joint being arthritic. It's been arthritic and mostly pain-free for a decade or more.

I think us old guys like telling everyone about how we were once great and talking about our health.... That said annual inspection came back good - numbers good on all cylinders. Read surfing and health - Doc Paskowitz and have tried to embrace it. Keeping the weight in control is a bear.

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Even a blind hog finds an occasional acorn

Medicare For All.

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scientia potentia est

It will be cheaper in the long run, that's for sure.



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I was right.

Nationalize health care !

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it's never too late to have a happy childhood...

Some great information on this thread.....but I just wanted to drop a little levity into the situation

Remember this ad in surf rags?

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Yes, especially if you're over 40 or have family history.

But we must make healthcare available to everyone. Medicare for All.

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Capitalism is based on the ridiculous notion that you can enjoy limitless growth in a closed, finite system.

In biology, such behavior of cells is called "cancer".

She passed Tuesday night. She died a painful death; the Hospice morphine did not touch it. My buddy is devastated. They had been together since high school, 47 years. Been our neighbors for 30 years. I found that she had had diabetes but did not take her meds because they cost too much! She was treating herself off of the internet!! If she had not been in such bad shape to begin with, they could have helped her much more.

So, I'll be blunt about it: IF you find that any of your family or friends is doing the same "self diagnosis and treatment", BITCH slap them into submission and MAKE them go to the doctor.

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