Insulin Dependent Pilots and the Airlines
Enjoy this interview on how insulin dependent diabetes is not the end of an airline pilot’s career.
Medicine
Being a HIMS AME: Supporting Pilots and Aviation Safety
So a lot has changed since my last post. In the past year, I’ve become a commercially certificated pilot and trained to become an Aviation Medical Examiner (AME). I also completed additional training to work with pilots that have neurological, psychiatric, and substance abuse diagnoses
ATC, RPM, and ADS-B……more acronyms anyone?
When you fly commercially on an airliner, your are flying according to instrument flight rules (IFR). In this situation, air traffic control (ATC) is busy helping the pilot stay safe and make good decisions by constantly following the flight with a variety of technologies. This
Maintaining Proficiency
It’s been quite a while since I’ve had time to blog. For those of you that have been on another planet for the past two years, the pandemic has kept me quite busy. That, combined with the typical end of year CMS billing changes and
AI in Medicine
Last week, I had the opportunity to speak at the Artificial Intelligence in Medicine Symposium sponsored by Telemed.edu and the Michigan State Medical Society. It was great to be back in my home state at the Troy Marriott. The only downside to the meeting was
Dinner with Newt Gingrich
Yesterday, I had opportunity to have dinner with Newt Gingrich. Granted, this was with about 60 other people, but I did have the opportunity to have an intimate conversation with him for about 15 minutes regarding health IT. This was after a full day at