Ashok Rai admits he should have known better.
Trained as an internal medicine physician and CEO of Green Bay-based Prevea, Rai went several years without seeing his primary care practitioner. Then nearly four years ago, he started noticing some cardiac symptoms. After a stretch of three or four appointments where doctors kept finding something else wrong, Rai’s doctors diagnosed him with high cholesterol, uncontrolled Type 2 diabetes and heart disease that required surgery to repair a heart valve.
“Physicians are humans, and when it comes to our own bodies we seem to rationalize things and then tend not to deal with them,” Rai says. “We’re busy. As a CEO, I work a lot of hours and I kind of blew things off, like being tired or having low energy levels or other things.”…