Hello fellow elder!  I, too, am 48 (well, for 6 more days). There are more of us than I had previously thought. Good to know.  I've been to my doc once this year. In February, I had a severe allergic reaction to an "all natural" face powder.  The year before, also one visit. Ear infection that lead to a perforated eardrum. That was a party, let me tell you.  Fat women seem to go to their docs all the time, yet claim they're totally misinformed about weight related anything. WTF?