If you are getting your certificates annually (e.g. 2nd or 3rd class) and have been doing so for more than 2 years, can you just list those appointments since the last medical and say "other appointments previously reported"?
Thanks Dr. Bruce. I noticed when looking at Medxpress that my prior submission does NOT show up. Would the original AME have access to it? Would any AME have access to it?
He only has access if he calls the agency during an exam and has the comments read to him or faxed to him.
It is what the doc's office uses to get insurance payment. If it's in a history and the office is at all efficient, the code for drug abuse will appear.unregistered said:
Nate, with MedExpress, which is mandated starting in October IIRC, there is no more paper involved. I wasn't asking the question so much for me, however, because I find that Bruce is very much on the ball!
Maybe August. Ha.
Nate, the system is up and running now. In fact, I used it last February. Now, that's not to say there won't be an unmanageable surge of new users as the deadline passes, but...Ahh. Didn't know that. October 1, or what?
I'm due for my final 5-year medical sometime before mid-October.
(Guess how old I am! Grin...)
If most computer system roll-outs are typical, I'm thinking early September might be an excellent time to visit the AME.
Preferably long before he's completely and utterly PO'd at the busted new system.
Here's the URL: https://medxpress.faa.gov/medxpress/Ahh okay.
Well, I guess I'll just show up whenever this year and fugettaboutit.
Either the computer will be happy that day, or it won't.
Think I could get a screenshot of my data with my iPhone? LOL!
I'm probably reading into this one from the stories of whatever that other FAA computer thing is that you use for new ratings. Seems like every time someone brings that one up, they complain that it didn't work and the CFI had to make a phone call.
Assuming that Aeromedical's new toy is as bad as that other thing sounds is probably a mental over-reach by this Sysadmin who's seen so much bad and sloppy code over the years, my assumption is always that the first version of anything has to be either backed out, or the project managers claim critical features weren't "in scope" and pronounce the roll-out an unmitigated success, and head for the bar at the golf course with the C-levels whilst us admins hack together something that replaces the missing functionality.
"Safari cannot open the page because the server can not be found".
(I'll look over the URL and troubleshoot that later, but thanks for the link. Hahaha. I am the Sysadmin, bringer of Server Death!)
Did someone at the insurance company tell you that? I would be very surprised if they don't keep them forever. Even if they are not immediately available they are probably archived somewhere.
BBCHEIN,
Only when an airman doesn't come clean with me. Then even if I exerted full effort it would be for naught. My going to bat for an airman DEMANDS total disclosure.
Nate, you're just a doc working in another area than mine....DenverPilot said:
as in, "what do you mean that the last time you imaged your harddrive was....never?"
18v: It asks for visits to all health professionals in the last 3 years, also demands to know if you've ever had the license (even pro-forma) suspended or substituted by an educational course.
18n. asks have you "ever in your life had substance dependence, or failed a drug test ever, or substance abuse or USE OF ILLEGAL SUBSTANCE IN THE LAST 2 YEARS." You if you're more than 2 years out, you're going to say, "Yeah I used it but I never abused it or was dependent". Better have some documentation for that. The only way I know how to do that is: Substance evaluation by a state licensed (sometimes they do acquit the airman!
I suppose if all the boxes 18v, 18w are negative, and you didn't come to the attention of the law, you can answer 18n "no", as there is no record anyplace.
They're pretty hard on this (mandated by Congress). And they're hard on AMEs, too.
We have EMR at my office and are working hard to get the bonus cash from the feds after we pass the meaningful use tests. The hospital recently switched to EMR also.
But if reporting prevents getting the certificate in the first place, a post incident revocation isn't really a disincentive.
Everything is accessable and in gargantuan databases. As we have discussed offline, 1993 is the cusp of that. I had a situation eight years ago where I tried to help a guy out remotely. I got approval to issue him if he passed standards. I got a call back six minutes later asking if I had issued yet. I was NOT contemplating doing so - but sending the authorization to another AME well across the country...and he called back to say, "don't issue, he has a Coronary bypass code".