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- From: geb@cs.pitt.edu (Gordon Banks)
- Newsgroups: sci.med
- Subject: Executive physicals
- Message-ID: <18229@pitt.UUCP>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 21:53:08 GMT
- References: <1993Jan15.083930.619@news.wesleyan.edu> <1993Jan15.170332.4523@news.weeg.uiowa.edu> <1993Jan16.183321.622@news.wesleyan.edu>
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- In article <1993Jan16.183321.622@news.wesleyan.edu> RGINZBERG@eagle.wesleyan.edu (Ruth Ginzberg) writes:
- >So just for fun, I called the Yale University School of Medicine, Internal
- >Medicine Department and asked about the "Corporate Medical/Executive Physical"
- >which they offer through the Yale General Medicine Group at Yale-New Haven
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- It's a rip off unless someone is buying it for you as a "fringe benefit",
- and even then, probably. Smart marketing by Yale, but totally unnecessary
- on a routine basis. These physicals include things like treadmill tests
- and lipid fractionations, visits with nutritionists, etc. These aren't
- for people with specific complaints but to make executives feel like
- everything has been checked on such a big VIP. Thank goodness I don't
- have to do such work, it would make me want to puke.
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