APPENDIX C Use of Form PHS-2037, Class "A" and Class "B" Certificates Issued; Related Provisions 1. General. The report on form PHS-2037 is to include only aliens presenting a report of previous medical examination abroad who are certified by medical officers as class A or class B on arrival at a United States port, but whose report of previous examination did not show the class A or class B condition, respectively, certified on arrival. The following classes of aliens will not be reported on this form: (1) aliens previously notified class A abroad and entering the United States under special legislation, (2) alien crew members, (3) nonimmigrants who are not required to present a form FS-398 on arrival, (4) refugees reported as regular immigrants but not previously examined abroad, (Note: For refugees certified class A on arrival and not previously examined abroad, give details in special memorandums.) 2. Related Report--PHS-4012-2. All regular immigrants with FS-398 and nonimmigrants with FS-398 who are certified class A and reported in items 6A, 6B, 6C, 7A, 7B, 7C of form PHS-4012-2 must be included in the report on form PHS-2037. Those certified class B and reported in items 6D and 7D of PHS-4012-2 will be reported on form PHS-2037 only if the certified condition differs significantly from the findings as shown on the FS-398. 3. Negative Reports. Negative reports will not be submitted on form PHS-2037. Instead include under remarks on PHS-4012-2 the notation "PHS-2037--negative." 4. Forwarding Medical Data to Headquarters. Where a significant medical condition is found, and a definitive diagnosis is obtained and a medical certificate issued, and where the evidence is that the condition was missed or significantly misdiagnosed by a physician who has examined the alien and reported his findings on form FS-398, all pertinent data including X-ray films not immediately necessary for medical care should be forwarded to Division headquarters for use in establishing the cause of error and for making corrections to avoid further similar errors. This action is in addition to the report to be submitted on form PHS-2037. (Certain exceptions remain in effect for the Mexican Border Area, per memorandum of October 30, 1961, to the El Paso station.) 5. Indicating Correction in Terminology. Where a new diagnosis is merely the result of using different terminology from that used by the physician who completed the FS-398, this should be indicated by an explanatory note on form PHS-2037 in the column 'Diagnosis" under "Medical Certificate." APPENDIX D Physicians (in Addition to Commissioned Medical Officers) Whose FS-398 Medical Reports Need Not Be Accompanied by X-ray Films Dyble, Richard H. Medical Officer in Charge Medical Officer Gross, Jean-Francois Asst. T.b. Consultant, Vancouver, Canada Paris, France Medical Officer European Area Lipsitch, Lester S. Medical Officer--WAE Medical Officer Paris, U.S. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: 1963 O-699-806 |