Are you putting off a colonoscopy? Dave Berry examines the reasons people might put off the procedure in his article “A Journey Into My Colon — and Yours.”

“The idea of having another human, even a medical human, becoming deeply involved in what is technically known as your ”behindular zone” gives you the creeping willies.

I know this because I am like you, except worse. I yield to nobody in the field of being a pathetic weenie medical coward. I become faint and nauseous during even very minor medical procedures, such as making an appointment by phone.”