I need to vent (so don't read any furthur if that's not your cuppa)
We are so unbelievably frustrated and angry after our experience today
My husband and two of my children had their medicals today for our ITA
It turned out to be a train-wreck of epic proportions
Apart from the cost and complete waste of time (OH took a day off work) it has proved to give us 20/20 hind-sight that we should've gone with a doctor that doesn't know us. Advice to future Canadians: don't use your family GP!
We are now considering finding another doc, paying again and getting all of this re-done!
What a supreme wasted effort! I am thinking those in countries that use panel doctors must have a better time of it as they are perhaps more used to the context of the questions on the forms.
Our family doc checked the 'yes' box repeatedly on all of their medicals for completely the wrong reasons. She said she had to 'protect herself' in case 'they' ever looked through her records! She didn't read the questions properly and felt she had to include every inane bit of trivia from over the years and blow it out of proportion which is going to make us look like invalids (or make her look like a fool) to nz. It is so ridiculous it would be funny if the consequences weren't so relative to us. The doc's own false findings weren't bad enough, our 9 yr old decided to ham it up and gave her a whole list of symptoms that aren't true that require furthur tests arrrrrrrrrrgh!
If we submit these medicals as is, they may all go to the MA (for 3 perfectly healthy individuals in our family!). I wonder will a CO or MA just laugh at the doctor's sheer stupidity for checking the 'yes' boxes for things that obviously don't matter or will they just find us too much trouble to read beyond the lines ??
There is being cautious and then there is just being over the top ridiculous. Any Canadians out there who didn't use their family doc?
Everyone else (if you're still reading) would you re-do the medicals with another doc across town? Or just submit and hope for some kiwi common sense?