Talk to your benefits administrator or manager about your company's health coverage for traveling employees. Your managed care plan might be adequate at home, but it probably provides little or no coverage when you're away. In addition, its unlikely that your company's plan includes medical evacuation or assistance services, which help arrange evacuation with a creditable air-ambulance company. If your company's arrangements in this area are inadequate, consider purchasing, or requesting that the company purchase on your behalf, a supplemental policy. See your Doctor and Dentist.
Many people are the same way with routine medical and dental care.
The annual physical becomes a five year pilgrimmage. Just as you took your car in for coolant, tire pressure checks and an oil change before the family's summer vacation, take yourself into the doctor and dentist sometime this fall. The good news is that the problems doctors look for are almost always easier to handle the earlier they're discovered. Be sure to have a dental examination as well, to get those marginal teeth straightened out. As reluctant as you might be to do so, remember how unpleasant it is to lose a night of sleep on an important business trip because of a horrendous toothache.