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Filed: IR-1/CR-1 Visa Country: Canada
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I'm wondering if anything were to come up on my medical (which I don't think will) would they inform me when I go to pick it up? Or would I not know anything until my interview. I have lost 4 family members from cancer in the past 2 years. I have a bit of anxiety worrying about the what ifs

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They're not checking for things like that. Just communicable diseases like HIV and syphilis as well as your lungs for signs of TB. It's a really basic physical (eyes, ears, throat, glands, breathing, heart beat...)

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose.  - Dr. Seuss

 

Filed: Citizen (apr) Country: Canada
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When I went through Vancouver and the Woking Medical Clinic in April 2009, the legalese they showed me made it very clear that this examination was a service being done for the consulate, not for me, no doctor-patient relationship was being created, that they weren't obligated to tell me anything at all, and that this examination was no substitute for a comprehensive physical examination by my own doctor.

That said, they were very nice and professional, and I believe they'd have told me if they found anything suspicious in the course of a normal examination, like a suspicious groin lump or mole or something, even if it was just an informal comment: "Have that looked at when you get to the US", etc. I wouldn't expect them to deviate from their standard exam process to go actively diagnosing, but I think they'd point out something they just happened to notice.

I have no experience with Dr. Cheema, however, so YMMV.

DON'T PANIC

"It says wonderful things about the two countries [Canada and the US] that neither one feels itself being inundated by each other's immigrants."

-Douglas Coupland

 
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