Two Harvard Medical School professors debate the merits of the annual physical in editorials published in New England Journal of Medicine. Harvard Medical School professors Ateev Mehrotra, MD, MPH, ...

Two major reviews of the scientific literature concluded that annual physicals do not improve health. The ongoing debate about whether the annual physical exam should be abandoned popped up in the ...

A friend, new to Medicare, asked me whether Medicare covered annual physicals. I told him, “No, it doesn’t.” The Social Security act clearly prohibits Medicare from paying for annual physical ...

Late last week, Dr. Ezekiel Emanuel, an oncologist, bioethicist and vice provost at the University of Pennsylvania, joined the growing call to end the annual physical for healthy people (those without ...

You get 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 ...

Dr Ezekiel Emanuel is not bashful about disrupting the status quo. In a recent op-ed in the New York Times, [1] he suggested that healthy people should skip their annual physical exams. It's a lighter ...

As a physician, my beliefs about the annual doctor’s visit might be blasphemous. I sometimes wonder whether these encounters are useful. Sympathetically, Dr. Ateev Mehrotra, a professor of health care ...

The traditional check-up often overlooks people who spend a good amount of their time traveling at 35,000 feet. Here, what frequent flyers, and frequent travelers, need to know. This voice experience ...

The need for annual physical exams has been called into question by some doctors even as the Affordable Care Act requires insurers to cover annual exams free of charge. Photo: Getty Every year on his ...