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Is this the type of physical Kaiser provides?

Apparently their physicians don’t use the USPSTF much:

Now that I’m 40, my premium is $300 a month. But it’s worth it. I went in on Tuesday and saw my nice Chinese doctor. I got my first prostate exam. Everything’s fine. I got a chest x-ray and an EKG and my ticker is healthy. I got all the blood tests a boy could want and the whole experience only set me back a $35 co-pay.

A chest x-ray, EKG, and “all the blood tests a boy could want” in an asymptomatic 40-year old doesn’t sound very evidence-based to me.

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