Here is an excerpt of one of my articles:"... Many of us think of the trip to the doctor as routine, even predictable. There's the forms, the old magazines, and the waiting. Especially the waiting. In fact, the wait to see the doctor may make up most of your appointment. But if your main concern about that check-up is how slowly time passing, you're potentially wasting a golden opportunity and may have made a fatal error. Making the most of your doctor's visit requires abandoning the traditional expectation that every check-up is routine and waiting for your doctor to inform you otherwise. This is a mistake that can be costly, both figuratively and literally. Thousands of dollars in medical bills could have been saved by patients if they'd asked simple questions well before their health took a turn for the worse. There are often small, negligible symptoms that you self-diagnose as no big deal. You assume it's a cold, a bit of the flu, or potentially seasonal allergies. Whatever the ima