It's time to catch up on annual preventive visits

July 16,2024

Many adults have skipped their regular check-up, whether due to concerns about COVID-19 or because they were able to address some health issues via telehealth. However, regular check-ups allow physicians to detect and manage their patients’ health in a manner that can be done only in person. John D. Fernandez, MD, a UCLA internal medicine physician in Beverly Hills, and Jose Soza, DO, a family medicine physician in downtown Los Angeles, discuss the value of regular annual preventive visits and why they should not be delayed any longer.