Novel Wedding Gift Registry Idea: Health Care

The Mayo Clinic’s blog offers an unusual idea for a wedding gift reg­istry: health care.

In This Bride Wants to Reg­ister at the Mayo Clinic, author Meredith Gould half-​​jokingly writes:

My Bridal Reg­istry wish list includes (in pri­ority order): com­pre­hensive blood work and urine analysis; a mam­mogram, pap smear, and DEXA scan; a com­plete eye exam by an oph­thal­mol­ogist; an EKG and echo-​​cardiogram; and an MRI of my lower spine and X-​​rays of both knees.

Details aside (not all com­po­nents of the author’s list, on a platform spon­sored by a mega-​​hospital system, are essential in what would be mine), this is a bril­liant idea!

And while we’re thinking in this mode: how about vac­ci­na­tions for kids? (baby shower) and well visits for adults (anniversaries).

#Sign­sOf­T­heTimes

h/​t Dawn McK­inney, @napernurse

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