Annual Physicals May Be Unnecessary Or Even Harmful, Research Suggests.

reports healthy people should not undergo annual physical exams, because they can be unnecessary and sometimes lead to costly follow-up care that is also unnecessary, according to medical research and experts. Michael Rothberg, the director of the Cleveland Clinic Medicine Institute Center for Value-Based Care Research wrote in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 2014, “Almost nothing in the complete annual physical examination is based on evidence. Why, then, do we continue to examine healthy patients?” The article mentions that the United States Preventive Services Task Force does not recommend annual physical exams. http://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2016/9/26/13029358/annual-physical-tv-doctors-america