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That brings up another flaw, in my opinion. The prescriber doesn't know the cost. He/she wants to presribe whatever is "best" for the patient, which is often the most ridiculous price wise. They (which includes me when I was writing prescriptions) are too busy taking care of patients to go...

Yikes. That's ridiculous, and my condolences for you and your son. Hopefully their patent will expire and the drug cost will drop down to something like the cost of a loaf of bread. The drug patent process is just a giant casino for the manufacturers, but the consumer pays the winners.

Jeepers. How and when do you decide to back off?

I'v LOVE my C206 for the 40 years I've flown it. It's too bad amphibious floats on are so expensive to own and operate, along with the reduction in cruise speed, but the only thing that really scared flying in Hawaii was sharks, which seemed to be a reasonble concern if landing on the water and...

Pharmacy Insanity Rant: As some may know from other posts here, I blame pharmaceutacil companies and their collusion with government, health care insurance companies, advertizers and others for some of the problems in our health care system. Along those lines, I have been put on an...

The good news is that if you fly yourself and passengers to places that you would otherwise fly commercially you can count the commercial costs as an offset, which in the total scheme of things doesn't usually make much of a dent. ;)

Yes, but an instructor can put limitations on a student pilot, and in my opinion should always do that even though he holds a "certificate". My bad for using that word, but the certificate requires an instructor's endorsement and is only valid for 90 days [61.87 (n)]. Per 61.89 (a) A student...

I think I'm already ahead on all three. I'm really pretty calm about this. I hope my loved ones get that and join in on the tranquility.

You can easily SEE that the applicant has no arms. You can't detect a person with mental illness that easily. In fact in some cases it's nearly impossible. That's why the FAA has very rigid standards for certification, i.e. the HIMS program. The unfortunate thing is that has to be applied to...

Which brings the circle around to the docs and other providers (nurses, social workers, therapists, etc, etc.) who make a diagnosis in the first place, because they are required to do that get get payment for services and get the drugs that they often don't really need to be paid for. If you...

There's a great temptation to fly direct between waypoints. When the weather or terrain is "iffy" in any way, consider flying airport to airport for the markedly increased options if you run into any kind of problem, keeping in mind that the airport you already flew over may the best option...

And most physical issues are a known quantity, so to speak. Psychological issues are poorly quantitated, even in the best of hands.

As a retired physician I see this whole thing as multiple failures, but they primarly rest with pharma and the medical providers and less with the FAA as an agency of the government. Patients act on advertisements, doctors and other health care providers react to patient requests (not always...

. . . just like any human trying to solve puzzles without computers. The cave men relied on the data obtained from observation to solve everyday problems. That's how we survive. My point is that some diagnoses can only be made by direct observation. My brother has ALS, the diagnosis made...

There are a lot of conditions for which there is no "test" to prove it. It's often the doctor's observation of the patient over a period of time that leads to a diagnosis.

Make sure that if your instructor has put limitations on your solo(s) that your are in compliance with those. Personally, I think instructors should do that whether it's a date range or some other limitation. You're NOT a certificated pilot yet.

We have a home on that lake (Champlain), parts of which are very deep. There's a lot of stuff down there.

Thanks. I have considered that but if I were going to do that I'd just try to use my own plane with a copilot before I sell it, but it's the ground transportation as part of that trip that actually is more challenging. Do you know if an airport like KBOS waives all fees for Angel flights...

We've been looking at participating in one of those clinical trials but they all require recurrent follow up at the trial site, which for us is a six hour round trip and difficult parking at the site.

Hell, I plan to maximize death itself. Vermont has a liberal "death with dignity" policy, which I will use, and my advance directive includes my request to fire my ashes from one of the bronze cannons I made years ago. My daughter's not wild about that, but my wife is on board and I think my...