As I walked up the stairs to our occupational health office, I realized how thankful I was for the opportunity to receive, as a volunteer paramedic, an annual physical from my place of work, the Alexandria (Va.) Fire Department (AFD). I signed in on the clipboard, printed my badge number, and settled in for the hours-long process that typically includes the physical exam, a treadmill stress test and EKG, the hearing test we all fear failing, a review of lab work, and that one thing where you have to breathe into a tube until you almost pass out. So when I was summoned into a room by a woman wielding an ultrasound probe in one hand and a flimsy paper robe in the other, I was surprised. “Is this a new part of the physical?” I asked her. She responded that her company, LifeScan Wellness, incorporates a full-body ultrasound scan in its public safety physicals.