I'm a trained health professional, (Pharm.D.: Doctor of Pharmacy) and worked in a university teaching hospital on the wards, rounding every day with the medical team for 10 years before I jumped into the drug industry for another 20 years. I worked in the area of oncology and oncology drugs.

You'd think I'd go to the doctor once in a while for a check up. BUT I've always been healthy as a horse and never felt the need, even though I should have known better. Never hospitalized,...