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To: SilentZ who wrote (302208)	9/4/2006 3:34:10 PM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1572261

It's to be noted that we're the only country in the world where people, on average, visit the doctor less than once per year. No surprise there. We visit our car mechanics five times a year, why not our doctors? Five might be extreme, but you have many cars over the course of a lifetime, and only one body. And because we rarely go, when we do go, there is a lot of fear associated with the experience. As I said, my cousin wanted me to see an MD to get an update on my asthma. When I go into a doctor's office for asthma as a matter of procedure they check my blood pressure. Mine came in 20 pts above normal. The doctor was surprised given that I work out. About twenty minutes into the exam he decided to take my blood pressure again. This time it came out normal. I was so tensed up about seeing an MD my blood pressure went out of control. Once he had talked to me for a while I became calmer and it went back to normal. I shouldn't feel this way about a doctor......after all, they are not out to kill us but to help us. But I have an exaggerated fear of doctors and hospitals probably because I rarely see one and have only been in a hospital once...after an accident. And now I find out that my health plan indirectly encourages that fear by not paying for physical exams.