Sunday, November 30, 2008

8 Doctor Medical

In order to adopt in Khabarovsk, you need to have a physical performed in Khabarovsk. Now our agency likes us to have the blood work and an updated physical in the US right before we travel on trip 1. As this clears the way into all the doctors and eliminates the need for needles over here. There are no general practitioners in Russia, so it literally is what is says, you visit 8 different doctors (okay we did 6 but I think some had multipurpose). The ones we actually knew their titles were: Neurology, psychology, drug specialist, surgeon and the other 2 we couldn’t decipher. It took us about 2 hours to run to 2 different clinics to see these doctors. It was pretty painless, so don’t panic. Most just asked a few questions and signed off. A few performed minor examinations.

Total cost was 3216 rubles for 2 of us. The exchange rate is currently 27.10. So it was about 120 dollars for 2 of us.

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