Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!honnetnews!news.gw.fukushima-u.ac.jp!news.tains.tohoku.ac.jp!news-sv.sinet!news.join.ad.jp!Q.T.Honey!nf.asahi-net.or.jp!not-for-mail Date: Tue, 13 Apr 2004 20:50:13 +0900 From: James Annan User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: fj.life.in-japan,soc.culture.japan Subject: Re: "Compulsory" health checks References: <407a805a$0$23278$44c9b20d@news3.asahi-net.or.jp> <67aee454.0404121720.359d411e@posting.google.com> In-Reply-To: <67aee454.0404121720.359d411e@posting.google.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Lines: 28 Message-ID: <407bd3eb$0$23281$44c9b20d@news3.asahi-net.or.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: h207236.ppp.asahi-net.or.jp X-Trace: 1081857004 news3.asahi-net.or.jp 23281 61.114.207.236 X-Complaints-To: ap-net@asahi-net.or.jp Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org fj.life.in-japan:13325 Hokousha wrote: > Another interesting question is, "Who gets the results?" Do they go to > the company or to only the patient? Dunno, they certainly get sent to us but maybe the company gets to see them too...not that anyone would read them, it's just a form that has to be filled. Anyway, acccording to the website someone posted, the X-ray (and in fact most of the rest) "may be omitted if the physician deems them unnecessary" and we've already found one who does just that (Bluff Clinic, Yokohama). So we can go and have a minimal check-up with him at our convenience, and at least the money will be serving a somewhat useful purpose (non-profit clinic to serve the needs of the non-japanese-speaking community). I mentioned the x-ray research at work today and several people said they had also complained and/or didn't want to get that bit of the test done. Interestingly, all but one of them had lived abroad for some time. James -- If I have seen further than others, it is by treading on the toes of giants. http://www.ne.jp/asahi/julesandjames/home/