I am currently going through the same thing but am not sure if it's the same AME because I never caught the name of him before your post was edited. Is there a way I can reach you or message with you to find out?
Terry Jakubaitis
Figures... Same guy. Thank you for your help.
Thanks for your feedback ,all of you. This guy is totally unprofessional and vindictive. He was rude, unprofessional and arrogant during an exam and I believe that he has been blocking and obstructing my medical like the person in the beginning of this thread, all because I was late to the appointment(for good reasons) and according to this quack, I failed to follow pre visit instructions and use Med Xpress. He even states that in my medical exam report. He's that arrogant that it shows this is all personal with him. I am currently involving my elected representatives and filing a complaint on him with the FAA and possibly the State of Wisconsin. I urge anyone that has had any type of problems with this AME Jakubaitis to contact me with information that would be helpful. He already has established a pattern of poor medical behavior that needs to be addressed. Thank You.
Quite the prevarication. I simply made a statement about what an AME does and why a second opinion is not a normal thing for an FAA medical cert. An AME may error the same way a DPE may error. Ya don’t get a second opinion either way. Ya pick up the pieces and move on.
We know of a really good one not far from Chicago
That might be a little harsh, depending on what the poster you responded to meant by "reported him to the FAA". He also said only that he "went to see his AME". There is some information missing there. If he went for a 3rd (or higher) class exam, then he may not understand that once the exam "goes live" and the AME enters the MedXPress code into the system, he has no choice but to issue, defer, or deny. If the AME simply sent in the exam, and that's how the FAA learned of the condition, then he was just doing his job. On the other hand, if he was there for a consultation (many pilots do this, to avoid the jeopardy of a formal exam if they may have disqualifying issues in their medical history) and the AME communicated with FAA outside the bounds of the consultation, particularly over something like a high BP reading, then I tend to agree with the poster that the AME was probably out of line. But even then, it depends on how high the reading was and what else transpired during the exam. In short, the AME may just have been doing his job, or it might have been egregious on the AME's part, really not enough information to say for sure.
Magyarflyer, one thing you might be missing is that if a pilot goes in for a formal flight physical, i.e. to get a Class 3, 2, or 1 med certificate, then during that visit the pilot is NOT the AME's patient, and the doctor is under no obligation to provide health care - I'm not certain, but it may even be against the rules for him to do so. During a flight physical exam the AME's responsibility is to determine if the pilot meets the requirements for the class of med certificate he is applying for, period. If he is not qualified, on that day, then the AME's options are limited. I'm happy that your friend was able to find an AME who prescribed HTN meds for him, got him stabilized, and was able to resolve the issue. But if (again, IF) your friend was at the first AME's office for a flight physical, the only thing your post implies is that the AME is PERHAPS less pilot friendly than the cream of the crop caliber AMEs most of us seek out, and I'd really want to hear the AME's side of this before indicting him as an a--hole. Nothing you have posted so far implies that the first AME was out of line or acted in any way contrary to his duties as an examiner. If there is more information and you want us to agree with you, you'll need to post it. If you can't or won't for confidentiality or privacy reasons, that's fine too - but don't expect everyone here to take your word for it that the AME acted inappropriately when you haven't given us everything we need to know to draw that conclusion.
Sounds like you had a good one!
It all depends on exactly what was said during the exam - that's why I said the AME was PERHAPS less pilot friendly than the best AMEs, with emphasis on PERHAPS. And that's if, as was stated, the AME just told him to come back without doing anything specific about his BP issue. Also, if it is indeed allowed by the rules (and I still don't know whether it is or not DURING A FLIGHT PHYSICAL - it obviously is during a consult or other non-flight-physical office visit), the AME could have prescribed BP meds for him and given him the option of coming back to get checked outside of the parameters of an FAA exam. Or he could have offered to do that in a separate visit, if that's what the rules would require. The very best AMEs would have found a way to do that, even if they were ultimately forced to send in an exam with a deferral. It doesn't sound like this AME did or tried to do any of that - but again, it's not clear based on the posted info exactly what happened.
