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tjr226
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Joined: Aug 31, 2008
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Sep 01, 2008 - 04:10 PM |
 
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| Post subject: Scared of the blood test for visa... which places are ok? |
Hey all, this is my first post here, I hope that this hasn't been covered before and I just haven't found it. I'm going into my blood test this week, and was wondering if anyone could confirm that this hospital will not give me any crazy infections or use dirty needles. I haven't even been here a week, so I'm still learning about what weird things are true and what weird things are just rumors.
Donghua is going to send me Shanghai International Travel Healthcare Center, which is something like 上海国际旅行卫生 ? ? 中心。 If anyone could spend a moment to reassure me, or warn me, I would greatly appreciate it! |
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Celso
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Joined: Aug 08, 2007
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Sep 01, 2008 - 04:17 PM |
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It's fine no worries, clean needles and all - they're not savages you know |
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Adrienne
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Sep 01, 2008 - 04:33 PM |
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No worries at all. They are very professional, very clean and use disposable syringes. It's really just like back home minus the jelly beans:-). RELAX!
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Bluebag
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Sep 01, 2008 - 04:40 PM |
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It's great - except for the leeches... |
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Snippets
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Sep 01, 2008 - 05:34 PM |
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They are very kind and considerate, ALWAYS making sure they sharpen the needle with a fine sandpaper and then burning the needle with a lighter for a few seconds. However, you are required to choose from a variety of different pathogens in which they will dip your syringe into before taking your blood. The Chinese are good like that you know, all about choice.
Dear, please don't make your stay in China a fearful one. You will only end up alienating yourself and making yourself and everyone around you miserable.
You really have to have a sense of humor to make living here enjoyable, but remember, there are hundreds of thousands of expats here and we are all doing just fine, so keep that in mind when you find yourself freaking out. The problem most of the time is not these "damn chinese" but ourselves. However...well.. thats for a different thread 
I thought you might be interested to know what happens during your health exam, which is much more than just doing bloodwork:
If you are extremely curious about the minute details of what happens, here goes:
1. Arrive at your pre-appointed time and you will fill out a simple questionnaire; asking contact info, past medical history, allergies, etc.
2. You will be assigned a number - you wait and watch for your number to come up on a digital sign and be called out over a loudspeaker.
3. Upon hearing this, you proceed to room 118, sit down and a person will check your form, take a picture of you and then you will move over to her colleague who collect your company's business license, passport copy etc and will print out bar code stickers for the blood work and staple them to the form you filled out.
3.5 Go pay 702 rmb.
4. You then go into another room, be given a robe, be asked to take off all of your upper garments (shirt, etc), then put on shoe covers, stand on a machine to measure your height and weight.
5. Go to another room, EENT (Eyes, ears, nose, throat) - basically they just have you read off a few things from an eye chart and thats it. Off to the blood station.
6. Place your arm out on a nice soft pillow and enjoy as they remove 2 vials of blood from you. Sit there for 3 minutes as you apply pressure with a cotton ball. Receive bandage after 3 minutes.
7. Visit with an old physician for general checkup. Take your pulse, blood pressure, ask about your medical history, lay on a table and be poked and prodded.
8. Now it's off to get a chest xray. Pretty standard stuff.
9. Then office to the EKG station - lay down, open robe, electrodes and clamps placed accordingly, printout of your EKG stapled to your form.
10. Lastly, it's ultrasound time - lay back and they will lube your stomach and both sides as they check your spleen and liver. You are foreign, so you will have a fatty liver most likely. Seems like EVERY one of us has a fatty liver. I was told I have an enlarged spleen as well. Wonder what that means?
11. Go back to the changing room, get your clothes out of the locker, change.
12. Go back to where you paid, a different line, and turn in your exam results. They ask if you want to have the results mailed to you (pay 30 rmb more) or pick up yourself.
That's it. Wait one week for the results. |
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mmhm
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Sep 01, 2008 - 06:48 PM |
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^that's about it. Not to mention the world's most unbecoming, but clean, robes.
The blood gals do this all day, every day and they are very good at it.
It's a drag, wastes a morning but its not dangerous. A little hard on your ego, is all.
the blood gals do this |
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GC
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Sep 02, 2008 - 06:03 AM |
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I'm trying to find the post, but someone from the Philippines who was manageress of a Tapas bar on Maoming claimed to have had some sort of anal probing during her medical.
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Magnolia
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Sep 02, 2008 - 09:05 AM |
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| Bluebag wrote: |
| It's great - except for the leeches... |
not supposed to tell people about that part! its in the agreement! |
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Magnolia
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Sep 02, 2008 - 09:07 AM |
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| GC wrote: |
I'm trying to find the post, but someone from the Philippines who was manageress of a Tapas bar on Maoming claimed to have had some sort of anal probing during her medical.
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let me charge my shanghai phone and i'll tell you her name. bleucheese may remember too. |
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Zak101
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Joined: Jan 20, 2003
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Sep 02, 2008 - 09:55 AM |
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Robe ? Robe ? I never had a robe in Suzhou, but Snippets is quite accurate *in most respects* although the order of procedures might be different.
Trust us, when it comes to taking blood, you'll watch the nurse OBVIOUSLY removing new needles and vials from a plastic wrapped chain of single use items.
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catur
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Sep 02, 2008 - 10:20 AM |
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| Snippets wrote: |
| You are foreign, so you will have a fatty liver most likely. Seems like EVERY one of us has a fatty liver. |
Great post! I thought he was joking with me when he told me I had a fatty liver. |
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