Med forms and how to send them in

[slingknees]

I've completed pretty much everything about the recruiting process except I have these med forms I need to get back to the med tech who saw me back in the spring. I'm worried about just sticking these forms in the mail for a couple reasons- first, my doctor filled out the forms and sent them back as a JPEG (pic. not scanned) and I think the quality will be crap if I print them, and second, the med tech's regiment is very far from the one I'm applying to, and when these forms showed up at MY door, they had gotten soaked in the rain due to Canada Post not giving a damn. I'd rather get them to the med tech as quickly and directly as possible, but emails have gone unanswered and the medic is only at the armoury for a fraction of the week. I want to make sure these forms get where they need to go and don't take forever doing so- is there anything my recruiter can do to help me along with this? It's been a long enough process already and I'd like to get the ball rolling here.
Thanks all!

 

[Blackadder1916]

I've completed pretty much everything about the recruiting process except I have these med forms I need to get back to the med tech who saw me back in the spring. I'm worried about just sticking these forms in the mail for a couple reasons- first, my doctor filled out the forms and sent them back as a JPEG (pic. not scanned) and I think the quality will be crap if I print them, and second, the med tech's regiment is very far from the one I'm applying to, and when these forms showed up at MY door, they had gotten soaked in the rain due to Canada Post not giving a damn. I'd rather get them to the med tech as quickly and directly as possible, but emails have gone unanswered and the medic is only at the armoury for a fraction of the week. I want to make sure these forms get where they need to go and don't take forever doing so- is there anything my recruiter can do to help me along with this? It's been a long enough process already and I'd like to get the ball rolling here.
Thanks all!

Add a covering letter/note "paper clipped" to the forms with the exact explanation you gave above why the quality of the forms and your physician's response look like "crap". Even if the doctor's jpeg looks like crap, can his response be read? Print it out as an example to see. If the recruiting centre think the quality is unacceptable, they will (should) get back to you. The longer you sit around waiting for a response increases any delay. The "medic" at the recruiting centre is not the final destination; he will be sending your file to Ottawa. If sending by Canada Post, send registered.

 

[Blackadder1916]

An additional point.

Before you send it in, make a copy of everything including your "crap explanation note". When you send it registered you have an official record of the date sent.

 

[slingknees]

An additional point.

Before you send it in, make a copy of everything including your "crap explanation note". When you send it registered you have an official record of the date sent.

Great advice, exactly the sort of in-the-system know-how I was looking for, appreciate it.

 

[Blackadder1916]

first, my doctor filled out the forms and sent them back as a JPEG (pic. not scanned)

Is there a reason why you did not collect the original, signed forms from the doctor? The completion of third party reports is common practice for all doctor's offices and policy for such completion has usually been issued by governing medical regulating bodies. Normal practice would be for original signed copy.

 

[slingknees]

Is there a reason why you did not collect the original, signed forms from the doctor? The completion of third party reports is common practice for all doctor's offices and policy for such completion has usually been issued by governing medical regulating bodies. Normal practice would be for original signed copy.

Mostly because the original forms were almost destroyed by the rain when Canada Post left them out to get soaked- I peeled them out and laid them flat to dry before scanning them and sending the scans to be filled out, but they remained pretty fragile even after they dried. Seemed the safer bet -the doctor completing it is also four hours away from me and is a psychologist (psychiatric form), so he's not equipped with a secretary/ doesn't process forms like this all that often.

But why not get my family doctor to do it for me? He retired early in the summer and they sent the heads-up to get transferred to an old address and we missed getting taken over by another doctor. I found out when I called them to get these forms done. So now we're on the waiting list for a new health care provider.

Basically, in what should have been a straightforward process, every step of the way has had some annoying speed bump that has nothing to do with my medical fitness or unfitness, but simply with the papers themselves. I suppose I could copy what my psychologist wrote directly onto the originals I still have, but that seems potentially worse than sending in the forms in the wrong format. All of it has made me gunshy about just sending them off and hoping they get where they're supposed to- maybe I just need to drive to Sault Ste Marie and deliver them by hand for my own peace of mind.

Thanks again for the advice. Reached out to my recruiter too, so we'll see what happens.