India, Sept. 10 -- The importance of getting tested regularly has been stressed by doctors time and again. However, in this day and age, when information is readily available, and it is too easy to get scared of diseases, people often end up booking several tests.

In a post shared on X (formerly Twitter), Dr Sudhir Kumar, a neurologist at Apollo Hospitals in Hyderabad, warned that you might be wasting money. "Are you paying for a 20-test 'Executive Health Package' every year? You might be wasting money on tests you don't actually need. The goal of preventive medicine is NOT to test everything; it is to catch the right things early."

Here's what evidence-based preventive care actually looks like for healthy adults, according to Dr Sudhir...