Quote Originally Posted by Lady's Human View Post
There are some medical conditions which should be an immediate bar to performing certain jobs and activities. Someone dealing with depression SHOULD NOT be in charge of the lives of hundreds of others. Just because someone wants to do something doesn't mean that they should be able to do it. There are qualifiers for everything, and those qualifiers should be more strenuous when dealing with the safety of others.

Reality isn't the warm fuzzy we wish it was.
Well, here is where warm fuzzy meets the reality of health/mental health care?

Here comes the rub....

There should be a system in place to monitor people who are in charge of transportation....Air/rail/road.

Now, how and what will that system look like, who will be in charge and what will the people affected think about it?

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Health records are pretty personal and I have mixed feelings about them being used as a measuring stick.....I agree that some plan should be in place, but how much info should be made available to employers and how will it be used?

One thing that I learned about working in health care is that when people are motivated to look into a clinical/hospital record, they have access to it all - Remember the Octo-Mom?

She delivered her kids at a facility that was part of the HMO that I worked for. After the births, people began to access her inpatient records and a whole slew of people were let go because of their 'curiosity'. Not a good deal.

The other hitch is the electric medical record movement here in the US..... That means that your medical records are now available, on-line.


This is going to be a tough sell here in America.