Orc There is no mandatory requirement to draw blood for routine physical examination, but most routine physical examination packages currently on the market will include blood drawing items by default. I have been doing introductory examinations at a community physical examination center for 6 years. I have met too many people who asked me if they can skip the blood drawing step when they check in. In fact, there is no standard answer to this matter. It all depends on the package requirements you choose and your own situation.
Last week, a young man who fainted from needles came for a routine physical examination. Their unit only required the exclusion of major infectious diseases. After he explained the situation to us, he changed the original blood test for hepatitis B to a saliva test. He also did a chest X-ray, blood pressure, and medical and surgical palpation as required. No needles were touched in the whole set, and the final report successfully passed the unit's review. I also met an aunt who took the initiative to ask for two more tubes. She has a family history of diabetes. In addition to regular blood sugar testing, she also took the initiative to add glycated hemoglobin items, just to find out whether her blood sugar was stable in the past three months.
The reason why most regular packages include blood drawing is that this project is very cost-effective. It is like doing a "liquid scan" on the body. Many early-stage asymptomatic problems, such as elevated blood lipids and blood uric acid, as well as mild inflammation and anemia, cannot be discovered by feeling the pulse or taking a picture. You can clearly detect it by drawing two or three tubes of blood, and it only costs a few dozen yuan in total. It is indeed very practical for most people.
Of course, many people now think that drawing blood for routine physical examinations is an unnecessary "excessive examination", especially young people in their early twenties, who have a regular schedule and rarely catch colds. For annual routine examinations, they only need to measure blood pressure, do an abdominal ultrasound, and take a chest X-ray. Drawing several tubes of blood is painful and wasteful. This view is not unreasonable. After all, the physical examination itself is a highly personalized matter, and there are no mandatory items. If you are really afraid of needles or have resistance to blood draws, just tell the staff in advance to adjust the items. There is no need to force yourself through the process.
