Checking in, checking up

This morning, I went to the doctor for my first physical exam in years. I thought it was interesting how getting an eye exam and even going to the dentist has become way more tech since I was a kid, but getting a physical is exactly the same. Take deep breaths. Drop your shorts. Look to the side and cough. Bend over. (That part was a new to me, and I still feel kind of weird about it.) Later on, blood was taken.

I seem to be healthy--which is great--but shouldn't there be some sort of tricorder by now? Pretty much everything that isn't supposed to be touched, was touched. The whole experience seemed straight out of the 1800s. Maybe Obama's health plan will kick us into the 21st century.