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...member of the opposition Democrats accused Samak of being "immature" and "verbally and mentally dysfunctional." During the heated debate over his political future, Samak showed his disdain by pointedly folding origami cranes. He responded to the charges of mental incompetence by countering that he went for a medical check-up every three months - and that doctors had found nothing amiss...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Thai PM Fights for His Political Life | 6/27/2008 | See Source »

...your car tuned-up every year. Why wouldn't you get an annual medical check-up as well? Lots of reasons, according to Ateev Mehrotra, assistant professor at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine. In a paper published last fall in the Archives of Internal Medicine, Mehrotra examined how much benefit regular preventive exams provide Americans, and how much they cost. He found that 1 in 5 Americans gets a general physical check-up in a given year, accounting for 8% of all ambulatory visits to doctors and ringing up a $7.8 billion annual price tag. But by examining...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Is an Annual Physical Really Necessary? | 6/4/2008 | See Source »

...sort is a problem too, as well as some of the medications that treat it. Hormonal fluctuations, such as testosterone, also affects sex drive. So it would make perfect sense for any man experiencing a drop in desire to start by visiting his physician and having a thorough check-up. That's step number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Help for Sex-Starved Wives | 4/7/2008 | See Source »

...trying to make sure that family medical leave benefits go to families who have troops overseas that the law didn't cover. I've tried to pass legislation that would make sure that every time one of these troops comes home, they get a baseline mental and physical health check-up and evaluation, so when they come back later and say they don't feel well, it isn't "Well that couldn't be from your war experience." This has been a problem with regard to Agent Orange from Vietnam, Gulf War Syndrome from the first Gulf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sen. Russ Feingold — Democrat | 3/18/2008 | See Source »

...report that today Johnny walks, climbs stairs and cycles; he can even jog a little without knee pain. Was it the superslime? Probably not. Most likely it was the two knee replacements we did over the next six months. I see him now every year or so for a check-up. He's still a great patient and he's sent me other good ones. He called on us for a year after the surgeries selling superslime, but now only sells antihypertensives to the medical guys down the hall...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: When the Patient Is a Celebrity | 10/19/2007 | See Source »

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