How about a lavatory that does all of these things and gives you a medical check-up at the same time?

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It was Habibie (with some of Suharto's children) who accompanied the president to Germany for a very public medical check-up in 1996.

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The pair told the Sun that they are "ecstatic" but had delayed announcing the pregnancy until a medical check-up confirmed the child was healthy.

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This year we introduced a special issue on the state of Asians' health which will become an annual - a yearly medical check-up of sorts.

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So the panel said such studies would be ethical only if they presented no more than minimal risk to participants like the risk from a routine medical check-up.

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The gendarmes drove about 50 vehicles with sirens blaring to their regional headquarters, where they were planning to have a "collective medical check-up" with the aim of being diagnosed with depression.

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The mechanic who was brought down by the snaking hose was carried away on a stretcher for a check-up at the on-track medical center.

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In the end, no matter how much doctors try to ease the transition, "It's all in the perspective of the patient and how they feel about who they are and where they fit in, " says Ari Brown, who liked her pediatrician so much that she was inspired to become one herself, and kept seeing him until her check-up before medical school.

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