How many times have you thought to yourself, "I should probably schedule a regular appointment with my physician.."?  How many of you even have a physician? This is one of the things that I found myself wondering after I completed my master's degree in college. I was fresh out of college and flung into the working world without a clue as to what was going on.
While in college, I (as did all of my friends) had our yearly physical with the school medical staff though not by choice. But where was the guidance that was so lacking once college was complete and we were now young, brazen adults who were looking for jobs and an apartment on our own? When looking for a doctor, the way that most people find physicians is through friends of friends or a family member. However, there is an increasing number of people out there (me being one of them) who are finding doctors based on their websites. The Internet truly is a fascinating place to find people and discover all sorts of bits of information that you never even knew had existed prior to the click of your mouse.
When it comes to your health, you shouldn't make any excuses. If you are unsure of how to go about finding a doctor, ask a friend or jump on the Internet in order to look at a particular doctor's website. In some cases, if location is an absolute must for you and you are trying to find someone who is a bit more local, then you may want to drive by a few of the place to check them out for yourself. This is especially true if the doctor in your area does not have a website. Just because there is no website, does not necessarily indicate the level of professionalism that you might receive if you were to eventually become a patient.
The importance of making sure that you schedule regular appointments with your physician is extremely important because this is where most of th pre-screening will be done to make sure that you don't have anything majorly wrong with you. For instance, it is often at pre-screenings where doctors will discover that  a patient has cancer. Cancer, though sometimes unpleasant, is not a death wish. Rather, there are many cures for cancer that linger out there and some of which doctors are discovering every day. No one cancer patient is the same; therefore various methods for attacking this disease are probably. But one thing remains that makes all of the difference: early detection.
If you haven't done so already, make your next appointment with your physician. After all, wouldn't you rather know if something is wrong with you ahead of time so that you could then more effectively deal with it? I know that I would.