9-Doctor Exam - what really happens

I would recommend you ask your adoption agency as it seems to be so region-dependent. I was concerned after some of the stuff I had read on here and so I asked my case worker. Here's her response: "They are actually pretty benign, Families have blood work and xrays done here not in Russia, they are less invasive than a regular physical here, listen to heart, lungs, look at your skin. One region requires an incountry psych val as part of the medical, but families do first here and then we send to rep to review to make sure it is answered correctly and because of translation issues, and then most everyone fails it anyway. I have never had anyone tell me it was invasive, or offensive in anyway."