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5 Health Appointments Americans Should Schedule Now
Critical exams and scans are dangerously overdue for millions of people
Preventive medicine and positive lifestyle choices are vital to good health, but the complex, expensive, frustrating and often anemic U.S. health care system can cause our collective health to deteriorate until we end up in overcrowded emergency rooms.
The pandemic has made matters understandably worse, at times forcing delays in all but emergency treatments at many hospitals, while discouraging people from getting routine checkups and important exams for fear of catching Covid.
As a result, scientists have estimated tens of thousands of preventable premature deaths will occur in coming years among people who didn’t get diagnosed with various cancers and other diseases early on when they were most treatable.
With so much on the line and on hold for so long now, I reached out to experts for suggestions on the most critical medical checkups overdue for many people, adding recommendations from leading medical organizations.
This is not a complete list by any stretch. It aims to be relevant to the majority of Americans based on preventing, primarily, the two leading causes of annual death: heart disease…
