Medical Exam

[Boy&Bell 1]

Hello VJ members,

Me and my wife was hoping we could get some feedback and your thoughts on what we have encountered during her medical exam. My wife went for her medical exam on Tuesday and was told that her x-rays showed some abnormalities in her chest. She was then told she would have to do a sputum test and come back and do it again for the next couple of days. She was then told that she'd have to wait out a two month period and hope that the results would come back negative. If it did come back positive, she'd then have to be treated for another six months. We are now feeling really bummed out after being excited over getting our interview after a year long process.

Here is what we're suspicious of. My wife just had an x-ray done in August of this year. Her results were negative, and she has never been diagnosed with having tb. So now we're thinking of getting a second opinion and my wife goes and gets another chest x-ray done at another hospital last night. Everything checks out good and he reassures my wife that her results are not showing any abnormalities in her chest and lungs. He even blows up the results just to show my wife that there isn't anything there.

So here's what we're thinking of doing. There are two medical facilities in Bangkok that are accredited by the U.S. Embassy in Thailand. We plan on going to the other medical center that is accredited by the U.S. Embassy and redoing her medical exam. If they come back and say that her chest x-rays are clear and there's nothing there, that'll make three chest x-rays within the last 4 months that showed nothing being there. If it does come back showing some kind of abnormalities, then we'll just go along with what they say.

We believe that her first x-rays was misread by this doctor and really wanted a second opinion. The second opinion that we got and hopefully the third opinion this week by the other accredited medical facility will prove that my wifes chest x-ray was misread by the first doctor.

We would greatly appreciate any input and thoughts you may have on this matter. Is what we're doing illegal? Can we actually get a second opinion on this issue. Should we just wait out the two months? We actually feel as if we're being cheated out of our time of finally being together!

If my wife is cleared by the second accredited medical institution, we plan on letting the embassy know exactly what happened.

Thank you ahead of time for all of your feedback. GOD BLESS!! GOD IS GOOD ALL THE TIME!! ALL THE TIME GOD IS GOOD!!

[udonthanikevin 0]

First let me ask you this, What hospital did you go to? We went to bumrungrad and the same sort of thing happened to us. They doctor had us come back the two following days for saliva and urine tests. And then we were told we can have the forms in two months after tests were done. Not for TB but HIV and now I come to find out HIV isn't even part of the medical exam anymore. I don't need the forms right away but now I'm starting to really wonder what is up with this place.

[Boy&Bell 1]

First let me ask you this, What hospital did you go to? We went to bumrungrad and the same sort of thing happened to us. They doctor had us come back the two following days for saliva and urine tests. And then we were told we can have the forms in two months after tests were done. Not for TB but HIV and now I come to find out HIV isn't even part of the medical exam anymore. I don't need the forms right away but now I'm starting to really wonder what is up with this place.

Hi!

I went with the same hospital..

[apple21 953]

Only accredited medical facilities by the US Department of State are allowed to decide whether we pass the medical exam or not.

Even if you go to 10 other hospitals to have 10 different xrays, if they are not accredited by DOS, the US Embassy won't accept it.

The US is very concerned when it comes to tuberculosis.

[Boy&Bell 1]

Only accredited medical facilities by the US Department of State are allowed to decide whether we pass the medical exam or not.

Even if you go to 10 other hospitals to have 10 different xrays, if they are not accredited by DOS, the US Embassy won't accept it.

The US is very concerned when it comes to tuberculosis.

Our concern was, is it possible to go to the OTHER US Em accredited hospital,since there are 2 facilities in Bangkok?

Is doing so,wont it hurt our application?

We need good advise,please..

Thank you.

[apple21 953]

Oops, my apologies. I didn't realize there are 2 accredited medical facilities in Bangkok.

[mts0921 0]

Essentially the same thing happened to my Filipino wife here in South Korea. They practically told me that the main reason she would have to get the sputum test because she was from the Philippines. They also said there was almost zero chance it would come back with a postive results. It took 8 weeks and of course everything was fine. I believe the problem you might have is the first hospital may have already reported the test results to the embassy which I think would make the additional testing mandatory. At least that is what we were told in our situation. Hope everything works out for you.