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0Clive, Perhaps I'm too tired to understand your explanation about physical checkup being a better choice. I read it 3 times and still don't get the point. Can you try to explain it again? I would appreciate it.0-

0 I don't know if this is a southern US phenomenon or not, but the use of "need" when it is not needed, so to speak, is becoming one of my pet peeves. It started, I believe, as a way to talk to children (angry mother: "I need you to stop that crying right now;" schoolteacher: "I need you to line up next to the door before we can go to lunch") and is now being used to address adults as though the

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0 There's also the term "history and physical." The history is how you answer the doctor's questions about your health; the physical part is what he can observe by seeing and touching. Then, of course, there are lab tests and the various 051050010id1241hrefhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arCITMfxvEccmachines that go ping