Health check on dense body of evidence

These words can raise the blood pressure of those of a certain age: annual checkup.

It is not the thought of a doctor donning the plastic gloves with aloud twang and a smiling request to bend over, nor the fibs, well alright, untruths, that you are about to utter.

Drink? Well, the odd one, you know, birthdays and the like. (This is not a lie. I have never ever had a drink on a day that was not someone's birthday.)