A nurse who worked with me would pleasantly call in patients by saying, “Mr._____, it’s checkup time!” Periodic checkups are good. As an Air Force physician taking care of combat pilots, I cared about all areas of their health—including their marriages.

Have you ever been reading a story when it dawns on you that the author merely took a biblical account and reset it to modern times with renamed characters? This isn’t uncommon, but at times biblical figures get recast with personalities that are the opposite of their true characters. In these twists, good becomes evil, and evil is good.