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naturegirl321 · Joined: 04 May 2003 Posts: 9041 Location: home sweet home

Just got my second medical exam. What a joke, they hardly even look at you, just make sure that you have a heart, test your blood, do an X-ray. Check your eyesite. They guessed my height and weight. My tonsils are fine, it says on the medical form, but I don't have any! Embarassed

Wolf · Joined: 10 May 2003 Posts: 1245 Location: Middle Earth

I don't have AIDS Very Happy

but I shrank four centimeters. Rolling Eyes

Apparently, hospitals in Japan are not held in high esteem by the mighty Chinese medical system (as I had a medical cert issued by a Japanese hospital before I left.)

It could be worse. I've heard that in Taiwan the tests are truly humiliating/invasive.

Kapt. Krunch · Joined: 01 Apr 2003 Posts: 163

You must be kidding...of course Japan is unacceptable...they don't allow the medical from 6 months ago in another province!! Confused

struelle · Joined: 16 May 2003 Posts: 2372 Location: Shanghai

Roger · Joined: 19 Jan 2003 Posts: 9138

700 kuai in Shanghai? You are kidding! They charged my school RMB 153 (one-five-three) last time I needed it, but that was not in Shanghai, admittedly.
Depending on your location, the medical costs anywhere from near-nothing to an arm and a leg - and the quality is substantially identical.
COme to think of it - many years back, they used to charge my employer in HK dollars (very coveted at that time).
Good business, without a promise to deliver a good service!

latefordinner · Joined: 19 Aug 2003 Posts: 973

I had two medical exams this fall. Neither my new employer nor I knew that my exam had to be done at a specific hospital, so the one that I had done first was a waste of money. It was the standard test for employment that chinese nationals undergo, it was a more comprehensive test than the one that foreigners are required to take, and it was about 200 kuai cheaper. Go figure.