Where to go for routine physical examination

For routine physical examinations, you don’t need to blindly chase reputations. It’s enough to choose an institution that is within an hour’s drive from you and holds a formal medical institution license. Whether you choose a public or private institution depends on your own health status and needs.

I also made the mistake of blindly following the trend in the past two years. I deliberately grabbed the medical examination number of the most famous tertiary hospital in the city. I got up at 5:30 in the morning and rushed there. I waited in line for an hour and a half to have blood drawn and another two hours to have a B-ultrasound. I only had a meal after the whole process was completed. It was originally a basic annual physical examination, but I had a headache for a long time that afternoon. Later, for my physical examination last year, I chose a private chain physical examination center that was a 10-minute walk downstairs. I made an appointment on the mini-program three days in advance. I arrived at 8 a.m. and was all done after 10 a.m. The equipment was all new and the doctors had announced their professional qualifications. The report was published electronically in three days, and there was a warning about thyroid type 3 nodules. I took the report to a tertiary hospital for follow-up examination, and the doctor directly recognized the examination results, which saved a lot of trouble.

Of course, this does not mean that there is no need to choose a public hospital. If you have underlying diseases, or your family has a genetic history of cancer or cardiovascular and cerebrovascular diseases, it is still more recommended to go to a public hospital physical examination center with strong professional capabilities. My aunt has a history of coronary heart disease, and every year she goes to a top-ranked top-ranked cardiology hospital for her physical examination. Their medical examiners are all rotating specialists in the hospital. During last year's physical examination, the doctor heard her heartbeat and found something abnormal. He made an appointment for her on the spot for a dynamic electrocardiogram the next day, and adjusted her medication in a timely manner. If it had been in an ordinary institution, it might have been ignored as an ordinary arrhythmia.

Nowadays, many people are biased against private medical examination institutions, thinking that they only promote extra items. This is not groundless. My colleague went to an unknown small medical examination institution before. The basic package of more than 300 yuan purchased in the group was deceived into adding more than 2,000 tumor markers and genetic testing items. When a certain indicator was found to be high, he was frightened and went for two triple-A reexaminations in a row. The result was that nothing happened. There was a problem with the agency's reagent calibration. But as long as it is a regular leading chain brand, these problems will basically not occur, and the prices are transparent. You can decide the projects to be done in advance and clearly refuse additional sales.

To put it bluntly, a routine physical examination is an "annual security check" for your health. There is no need to squeeze your head to grab the number of the top three, nor should you be greedy and choose a small institution that cannot even check the qualifications. Before choosing, you should know your health situation clearly, and then choose one with convenient transportation and easy follow-up if there are any abnormalities later. It is suitable enough.