I had one done in Montreal. $250 all at the same place.

My second one (after CIC's pantomime) was in Moncton. $175 at the doctor and $160, I think, at the hospital for Urine, blood and chest X-Ray.

At my medical the doc asked if I was nervous because my BP was a little high. By then I was pretty angry that I was seen nearly two hours late with no apology or explanation.

I was also a bit put out because when sitting with my file in front of him, he whispered "what's your name?" I heard what he said but as he could clearly see my name on the file I thought he may have said something else.

So I said "sorry?" and he repeated the whisper. I answered ...then it occured to me this was a sneaky way of checking my hearing and then I was worrying if he was noting a non existent hearing problem.

So first anger and then worry to possibly up the BP.

Anyway, later on the medical part of CIC (or whoever it was) wanted me to have the creatinine test. Not only did I have to pay a repeat fee at the hospital (that's where things were done here, not at the doc) for the test, the health authority policy was to charge the same full fee regardless of what test was done. So for that one little test I had to pay the same fee I paid for all the others ie blood tests, urine test and chest x-rays.

I did a little research at the time, not knowing what the test was, and concluded that he could probably have anticipated that need and ticked the box for the Creatinine test along with the others when he referred me to the hospital, having observed the BP reading he took.

Reading this post makes me more sure about it and that his lack of foresight (and his strange way with people) meant I had to pay twice as much as I should have.