COMMENT:

Jason, thousands of people below the age of 38 have various rare
diseases of every organ. That doesn't mean any insurrance or care plan
or HMO is going to do every medical test we can think of, to see if YOU
might possibly be one of them.

If you want to pay cash out of pocket for your own screening medical
tests, you can get anything lab test you like done. Have at it. Enjoy.
Try not to get too anxious at the numbers slightly out of bounds.  And
don't bother us here with them, please. Thank you.

SBH

PS. Valium is cheaper

I'm not sure that anyone said that. Certainly I did not.

But more importantly, you are making a quite different point. Whether
such tests _should_ be done is something one can debate, and
reasonable people will have different views. But in the US medical
system, many people do not have much flexibility in choosing an HMO,
or perhaps even in choosing a doctor witin an HMO. (I am assuming that
you and the OP are in US, as I am.)

The OP seems to have two complaints, perhaps somewhat distinct. One
was that the doctor acted rushed (which might be a personality issue),
and the other is that the exam was les through than he wished. If the
OP thinks these are causes for concern, then do some looking and
asking. But simply blindly jumping, without knowing where one is
jumping, is likely to not be too productive.

As to what tests should be done at what age... Well, we could each go
dig up some statistics. But so what? Neither of us sets the rules. I
assume we agree that not every conceivable test is done on every
person at every visit. The rest is judgment, about where to draw the
line, and neither of us makes the HMO rules. But it does behoove us to
at least understand what they are doing; only that way do we have a
chance of getting what we want, either from this HMO or from some
other. So I repeat... The OP should ask some questions. Before
jumping.

bob