BCMJ, Vol. 44, No. 9, November 2002, page(s) 466—Personal View
Michael Golbey, MD
Overheard
Overheard while I was having breakfast recently at a local pancake house (this was a group of men sitting at the next table):
Customer #1 “I just had my Class 1 driver’s licence renewed.”
Friends “How did you pass the medical? I thought you were having problems with your blood pressure—doesn’t all that medication make it difficult for you to get your licence?”
Customer #1 “Oh, that was no problem. I went to one of those walk-in clinics where they don’t know me, and I just didn’t tell them that I was taking that stuff and they filled in the form for me.”
There are two morals to this story: first, be careful what you discuss in restaurants—you never know who may be listening. But more importantly, if you are prepared to do drivers’ physicals, be sure you really know the health status of the person you are examining. I do work in a walk-in clinic once a week, and I do not do these exams on people who are not my patients and whom I do not know.
—Michael Golbey, MD
Chair, BCMA/ICBC Liaison Committee
