My Vo would like to know exactly what do they do during the medical examination in HCMC. Thanks in advanced. Maybe a list of procedures would be good.

Make sure she has her vaccin shots.

1. Make sure she eats and drinks before she goes! Tell her to drink some fresh cocnut.
2. Bring the letter from packet 4 and her passport and ID card. make sure she makes a photo copy of the appointment letter, they will need two copies.
3. Bring the fee money for the examination.
4. After waiting abit, she will be called to have her chest x-ray taken. She will go to a small room to remove her clothes down to her underwear, she will be given a hospital gown and thewn will proceed to the x-ray.
5. After the x-ray, she will get dressed and then told to go to the second floor, they will tell her wear to go.
6. After she waits for some time again, she will go to a small room and again asked to strip down to her underwear.
7. The doctor will begin the examination, listen to the heart, they will look closely at her skin, blood samples and they will also look at her vagina up close. It is best if she gets a female doctor.
8. My wife says that if she wears glasses not to wear then to the examination due to the fact that they may require more test and complicate the examination.
9. They will ask her about family illnesses and if she was ever ill or had some kind a sickness.
10. They may also ask what kind a visa she is applying for and if she has family here in America.
11. After the exam is completed they will give her an appointment letter on when to return to the hospital to pick up the x-ray and approval letter or rejection letter whichever one it is.

I hope this helps.

Bruce and Han,
is that true all the things you said?Uh Oh its sound like be n..ked

Yes - it is all true.

STL_HCMC

IOM did Kim's exam. Female doctor. Professional. A-OK! And... yeah, they def. play doctor with your honey... wear clean underwares highly recommended HAHAHA !

Thank you very much for your replies.

Yes,
This is the truth. just be calm and you will get through it ok. When you first get there, ask if you can get a female doctor.

Guys
im little bit scare bout that,but if i can ask to get a female doctor then it would be so good but wonder why male wanted to do this job?????????????????????

Hope_and_praying,
My wife told me that she had a female doctor and she she said there was also a female nurse with her too at the same time. I cant say why a man would choose to do this kind of work, but that he should be professional in their line of work. Be strong and you will get through this quickly. Just stay focus on the interview.

Please let me know if you have any other questions and I will try to help you.


Sincerely,
Bruce and Han

In VN, almost everything is of low standard and cheating, and corruption is rampant. In education, many forms of it including a demand for having sex with student by a teacher, in alimentation processing: illegal and detrimental chemicals in meat, fish and poultry proccesing to keep them fresh and make them look good, and also in vegetable to be more productive, then fake medicine, and public construction and its “pending” projects, housing and land “robberies”, trafficking of women and girls, and currently the gasoline scandal, and a lot more in every field are very often on the news.

In health care, current scaring news are from cosmetic surgery, especially a recent news about a patient was locked off intentionally after surgery in her doc’s office for many days with no food no drink and no contacting to outside.

Death and injury caused by unlicensed and even licensed cosmetics surgeons (and by impostors too) does occurs from time to time though not too frequently.

However, in other fields of health care they are improving, though really slow. Overall, they are still somehow professionally reliable, especially for common illnesses. But for more complex ones, don’t trust them.

Now talking about ethic, Vietnamese doctors in VN are of different standards. I heard from my wife a story about a friend of her who went to a male doctor for breast check up. After being told to bare her chest for the doctor, he watched her breasts for a moment, then started “examine” them using his bare hands (i.e. without gloves). This kind of “examination” occurred on the country side as my wife’s friend and the doctor were on the country side in VN. I wish this story couldn’t be true (even on the country side). But my wife keeps saying that the story is true, then because of that she rarely goes see a doc. She doesn’t trust them not only professionally but also ethically, as to evidence for that she always cites about her friend’s story, and that is just one.

For the pre-interniew physical check up , last time in 2004, she chose a female, and she got one easily. And for the coming interview she’ll do the same. BTW, anyone knows about whether a beneficiary has to redo completely the physical check up and vaccination even she’s already done both of them completely before?

One last thought: in IOM and Cho Ray Hospital, where they do this kind of check up, the standards are higher. So all in all, it’s good to pay enough attention to this kind of gender and ethic issue, but don’t worry too much. However, to be on the safe side, and especially if she insists, go for a female even though it may sound sexist. And as a patient, she has the right to choose the physicican she likes.

Correction:
For the sentence "After being told to bare her chest for the doctor, he watched her breasts for a moment,... ", I like to rewrite as follows:
After telling her to bare her chest for him, the doctor watched her breasts for a moment,..."

Thanks.