Proactive care: the patient's right to choose

![][1] When I recently went to my GP for an unrelated problem, she offered to take my blood pressure as I had not had it done for 5 years. This seemed a reasonable opportunistic check, and I readily agreed. I am in an age group where I get called for various screening tests approximately once every 3 years. So far, I have accepted all invitations and felt that the inconvenience was easily outweighed by the reassurance of a normal result....