Join us in the frozen North. I was three months out from a “scope” to look for colon cancer and my GP had a consult with me on an unrelated matter. He made a frowny face and said “you need another scope”. I told him I just had one. He insisted. So I went. Was on an operating table about four weeks later. I would have been dead without that scope. I had no problem doing that first or second scope because they were “free” (I am guessing about $1300 a year goes from my taxes to health care, so not free, just a decent price considering I have colleagues in the US where that won’t even cover two months).