UK Medical - do you have a heart murmur?! Read this for a heads up

[Pimhow 0]

Hello!

I had my medical in London last week and the very nice and thorough doctor asked me if I knew I had a heart murmur. Luckily my GP had detected it on my annual physical a few years back and sent me for an echo so I was able to produce medical reports showing that my murmur doesn't affect my life.

The doctor told me that if I hadn't been able to produce my medical reports that I might have had a major delay as they wouldn't be able to give me medical clearance.

I'm not intending to cause mass panic and make everyone rush to their GP to find out if they have a murmur!! Just giving those who do have a murmur a heads up to have the pieces of paper ready to show that you know about it!

Obviously this is just my experience. Others might have not had their murmur mentioned!

Best of luck to everyone out there. We will all get there eventually!!!!

[Nich-Nick 3,354]

Anyone having a medical exam at Knightsbridge clinic in London will potentially be asked for more information from their GP if they have ever had--

High blood pressure

Cancer

Major surgery

Depression

Diabetes

Asthma

Heart disease

Stroke

Self-harm

Malaria

STDs

Liver disease

Take regular medications

Etc

Etc

[Julie+Matt 84]

Okay...

my fiancé broke his back when he was a teenager. He's perfectly capable. He walks and moves and is physically active, but he completely exploded a vertebrae and it's held together with a mesh cage. He also got hit by a car when he was a teenager (he had destructive teen years lol) and both of his knees are artificial, but again, he can walk, run, jump (had to learn how to walk twice from those accidents) are they going to give him a hard time? (sorry if I'm hijacking your thread, but your heart murmur thing made me wonder...

[Nich-Nick 3,354]

The doctors at Knightsbridge may want more information than they can get from examining a person for 15 minutes. So they will sometimes (often) request the doctor who attended him or has his medical records write a little summary in medical terms of when, what was corrected and he's fine now. Or in the case of ongoing conditions, what kind of meds are taken. It doesn't mean he wouldn't get a visa. They just gather more info on more serious medical history. Many take in a report from their GP so they don't have to get it later and hold up their medical exam files going to the embassy.

Edited September 2, 2014 by Nich-Nick