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YOU’VE HAD A cough for a couple of days. You’re tired and a little feverish, but you have meetings to get through, family members to shuttle around, and approximately zero interest in sitting in a waiting room. Besides, it’s probably just a cold or the flu. You’ll be fine.
Sound familiar?
“Particularly the fellas, we tend to put off calling our doctors,” says William Schaffner, MD , an infectious disease specialist and professor of preventive medicine at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. “‘It’ll get better tomorrow,’ is what we say.”
That wait-and-see approach can backfire, especially if what seems like a routine respiratory…
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