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I'm late for my checkup at the fertility clinic.
At my checkup last year, my doctor said, "You're the healthiest person I know".
(At my checkup, the doctor and I had discussed this and another fall I'd taken, noting the curiosity that when you're young you "fall," but when you're older you "have a fall").
I make my checkup appointments and get my blood drawn.
When they called me in for my checkup, I brought the peanuts with me into the exam room.
When the doctor's office called and said it was time for my checkup, I actually looked forward to it.
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My uncle was a dentist, and during one of my checkups with him he mentioned that my cousin was getting a job.
"They tell me, 'I'm only here because my wife made me.' " At my recent checkup, I had suspected an asymmetrical red mark on my shin, nearly the size of a dime with irregular borders, that had lingered for months, no matter how hard I'd stared at it.
But when it improved and I didn't, I finally gave in and called my longtime doctor, a brilliant diagnostician who had given me my annual checkup just a month earlier.
I went for my annual checkup and, tired of carrying this anxiety around, burst into tears the moment she said hello.
"[A] doctor who writes for the New York Times insisted on getting my entire medical history from all the doctors I've ever seen including those who give me my annual checkup," Reagan had complained after Lawrence Altman wrote a famous article raising the issue of health in the campaign.
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