'A STITCH IN TIME SAVES NINE'. This saying is apt for the Health checks done for knowing our health status which makes it possible for us to manage our health by making small corrective changes in time if necessary, instead of enduring the major course of treatment for management of the disease in an advanced stage of the disease.

Whisking away that saying 'Health checks are not for me', is pushing ourselves away from getting into positive health shelter.

Even for the machines, there is something called Annual Maintenance and we prefer to pay for it. The rarest of the rarest human machine, which needs care in a humble way, may be every year in the form of a Master Health Checkup. Why are we reluctant to get ourselves assessed? Is it the cost? Is it the time? Or Is it the morbid fear that we may suffer from a grave disease?.

Setting all this fears and apprehensions aside, we must take time to see where we stand and where your health stands.

Present day medicine has a strong belief in prevention rather than curative medicines.

The tests are designed as a holistic approach to cover all the risk factors and thereby telling your risk levels when it comes to the killer diseases like coronary artery disease, stroke and cancer.

Screening tests are done most of the time to tell us that we are free from all the dreaded diseases, contrary to the popular belief that they are done to put us in the patient’s list.

Spend just a day, take time to get assessed, let us feel free to raise the doubts to the doctors and get them cleared.

Knowledge gives clarity. Knowing that we are healthy clears our doubts about the lurking diseases. I conclude saying that a 'Stitch in time saves nine'.