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TaylorW747
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Made an honest mistake...
On my second to last medical I answered no to, "have you ever been admitted to the hospital". However, while looking at my insurance records to fill out my most recent medical I came to learn that I had been admitted for constipation instead of what I thought was an observation.
Also for past medical visits within 3 years, I was only disclosing well visits. I can only say that I misunderstood what it was asking for me to disclose.
I did however disclose previous constipation issues in section 18 (which is what the admission was for). I called up a lawyer at AOPA (great people by the way) and he said I had two options. Write a letter to the FAA, or disclose all on next medical (1st class). The team at AOPA said that since I had already disclosed the issue of constipation, the misunderstanding between observation and admission should be explainable (since the underlining issue is something I had discussed with my AME on all past medicals).
I took my new 1st class medical and disclosed absolutely everything. I am young and was unaware that I could use my insurance records to see what my recent doctor visits were (I had my mother help me on this medical). I went and had my evaluation done with my AME. My AME questioned why I hadn't mentioned the admission to hospital on my last medical. I explained that I thought I was under observation and was not admitted. The AME understood, and by the end of the exam I had my new medical.
My current worry is, now that the FAA knows what they want to know, if I were to end up under investigation in the near or far future, what would happen? Would they take away my current ratings because of a past accidental omission that has been corrected? The Lawyer said he had never seen the FAA do something like that with a scenario alike mine (omission of a non-grounding condition that had already been disclosed). DO I have something to be worried about, or am I overthinking it?
On my second to last medical I answered no to, "have you ever been admitted to the hospital". However, while looking at my insurance records to fill out my most recent medical I came to learn that I had been admitted for constipation instead of what I thought was an observation.
Also for past medical visits within 3 years, I was only disclosing well visits. I can only say that I misunderstood what it was asking for me to disclose.
I did however disclose previous constipation issues in section 18 (which is what the admission was for). I called up a lawyer at AOPA (great people by the way) and he said I had two options. Write a letter to the FAA, or disclose all on next medical (1st class). The team at AOPA said that since I had already disclosed the issue of constipation, the misunderstanding between observation and admission should be explainable (since the underlining issue is something I had discussed with my AME on all past medicals).
I took my new 1st class medical and disclosed absolutely everything. I am young and was unaware that I could use my insurance records to see what my recent doctor visits were (I had my mother help me on this medical). I went and had my evaluation done with my AME. My AME questioned why I hadn't mentioned the admission to hospital on my last medical. I explained that I thought I was under observation and was not admitted. The AME understood, and by the end of the exam I had my new medical.
My current worry is, now that the FAA knows what they want to know, if I were to end up under investigation in the near or far future, what would happen? Would they take away my current ratings because of a past accidental omission that has been corrected? The Lawyer said he had never seen the FAA do something like that with a scenario alike mine (omission of a non-grounding condition that had already been disclosed). DO I have something to be worried about, or am I overthinking it?
