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Agreed, but the ridiculous and scary part is that even WITH exams 50% of initial acute / emergent events are without warning. ie. the elite runner who was a sudden myocardial infarction (heart attack). Or the thin person who all of a sudden is found to have 3-5 vessel disease. They are...

Understood 155/95 may be the exam cutoff, 120 / 80 for good resting pressure (in a doctors office but both bogus in my viewpoint) but my point is they are not able to truly identify a potential crisis on their cursory exam as more than half of cardiovascular or other events occur in patients /...

http://www.aopa.org/advocacy/articles/2012/120113white-house-aviation-user-fee-response.html Scary stuff. Pilot #s and GA activity continue to decline from what I read. Amazing this government can think increasing taxes will help anything. ATC is one of the FEW gov entities I am truly...

Greetings Stan- My brief history...initial 40 hours 1999 4th year med school in Traumahawk (half of that year a BIG waste of time and money!), didn't finish up until horrible commercial island flying experiences in 2006-7. Private 5/08, IFR 8/08, Comm 7/10. 2/3 through MEL but waiting for...

I visited with Doug King at the factory in Bend last year, and I've always been fascinated by the planes. As a former proud Col400 owner I think this is the obvious next step in aviation. From what I know of the china deal I'm not sure how they would be able to introduce the Escape (my...

Happy to be flying with P of A, I'm new. As a naturally focused physician I agree that the typical standards for things such as BP 120/80 etc are ridiculous. However, the much bigger problem is that most are so truly unhealthy and medicated to begin with, and that our medical system does...