<p>My son goes for his exam on Wednesday. I'm just wondering if anyone else (or your kid) has been in for your exam - does the doctor generally ask questions as he/she goes or do they tend to keep to the medical forms that you bring with you?</p>
<p>Does one have to be prepared for open ended, "fishing" type questions? We keep hearing (as recently as two nights ago) that the less a candidate says the better. Thanks.</p>
<p>I wouldn't go on for five minutes about anything (unless citing reasons why a particular "problem" isn't one), just be direct and honest. Make sure the forms are filled out completely. My examiner forgot to take one measurement. Mostly, they tend to stick to the form. If they see a potential red flag, they will ask about it. Then again, they may talk just to be nice.</p>
<p>If there are problems, there is always a chance to question it. Also, it was not as bad as I thought it would be...your son should relax.</p>
<p>"unless citing reasons why a particular "problem" isn't one"</p>
<p>I don't think they pay much attention to excuses, at least not for me. They'll decide if your problem is a problem, by making you drive 2 hours each way to the nearest air force base... grrr.</p>
<p>and no, they wont try to trick you with open ended questions... its all pretty basic. the doc moved my arms and legs around to make sure I didn't have any fake limbs or anything, and I signed some paper that i filled out prior to showing up that asked if you had any problems in like 100 different areas.</p>
<p>I just had my exam today. Pretty much they just ask you about any yes's to make sure they're not serious problems. They didn't ask me any weird questions. Only thing I didn't like was my hearing portion. The room I was in was NOT quiet.</p>
<p>I think that good advice would be to answer any questions truthfully and STOP. Just like the advice for witnesses in court. My son was asked about colds/respiratory problems. He was really never sick. He elaborated that on a rare occasion he took over-the-counter medication like Advil Cold & Sinus or Claritin. Well, Claritin is used most of the time for allergies and he then got the request to do remedial paperwork for allergies/asthma. Totally unnecessary if he had just answered the question without elaborating. I think that I can count on one hand the number of times he has had a cold or flu and has never been treated for respiratory problems. Bottom line, answer any questions that you can with one word answers like "yes" or "no" and then be quiet.</p>
<p>anyone know anything about or dealt with DoDMERB on hearing issues? I had my exam today the hearing test was awful it makes you feel so stupid when you're in there, but anyways my left ear was normal, but I had trouble hearing higher frequencies with my right ear, the Doctor said I had 'significant' damage to that ear and anywhere from 30%-40% hearing loss, but then in the next sentence he was like but its not that big of a deal it shouldn't affect you and in the sentence after that he was talking about how bad it was and kept saying 'significant'. So I didn't really get a clear message from him. but Besides that it doesn't affect me any in day to day life and I didn't know about it till today.</p>
<p>should I be concerned, would this be waiverable? what do yal think?</p>
<p>if you arent completely deaf dont worry about it....my principal got rejected to west point after having already gotten in due to his complete inability to hear in one of his ears, he went to vmi and retired a major in the marine corps though...</p>
<p>Here's a page that has a LONG list of what would need a waiver <a href="https://dodmerb.tricare.osd.mil/docs/Disqual.asp%5B/url%5D">https://dodmerb.tricare.osd.mil/docs/Disqual.asp</a> </p>
<p>There's a part in there I found that says 'Hearing loss exceeding medical accession standards'. A lot of what's on there is stuff I can't even pronounce, but take a look for anything else dealing with hearing.</p>
<p>So I shouldn't be to worried about the hearing? Like I said before it has never bothered me before and I didn't know about it till today so I'm obviously not deaf in that ear. Even if it is somewhat bad DoDMERB will probably waiver it for me after follow ups?</p>
<p>if DoDmerb has me do another hearing test as a follow up and the results come back the same would a doctors note saying that tests show one thing but it doesn't affct my day to day activities suffice to getting a waiver? How does that work?</p>
<p>Thanks for the link btw I had seen that before but couldn't find it anywhere worth anything</p>
<p>im almost positive as long as you arent actually deaf you are fine</p>