Tuesday, June 27, 2006
Don’t be nonadherent, noncompliant, or foolhardy in this matter. Follow your physician’s recommendations for cardiovascular risk factor screening. If your physician isn’t screening you for cardiovascular disease, insist that they do. If they don’t know what to check, you can ask that they use the Metabolic Screening & Monitoring Form that John Newcomer and I have created, published by Compact Clinicals. If you don’t, you’ll be giving health care professionals an excuse to Blame the Patient, and needlessly shortening your own life.
