I think it is the right thing to do, "for the greater good". DVLA have been
very good in past and will listen and act on the basis of an "anonymous"
tipoff, and will e.g. request medical exam., gamma g-t etc. fortunately not
a common situation.
Ian Williams
Huntingdon, UK
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-----Original Message-----
From: John A. Charlton <[log in to unmask]>
To: [log in to unmask] <[log in to unmask]>
Date: 17 March 1998 22:57
Subject: Re: alcohol and confidentiality
>On a similiar note I have a chap who consumes bottles of scotch and drives.
>Police are poised. As he gets in his car to travel a few hundred yards so
>drunk he cannot sometimes cannot get out.
>
>I'm trying to get hold of the DVLC. Am I doing right?
>
>Tried + leaning on him to no avail.
>
>John Charlton.
>Derby
>
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>> From: Emile de S <[log in to unmask]>
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: alcohol and confidentiality
>> Date: 17 March 1998 17:05
>>
>> In a message dated 17/03/98 08:19:42, you write:
>>
>> Did you inform her of the access to medical reports legislation.
>> Informed consent would require her to understand that she had the right
>to see
>> any report before it was sent.
>>
>> The Access to Medical Reports Act does not apply to doctors employed by a
>> company for the express purpose of providing a medical opinion, only to
>those
>> who are the patient's own medical advisors, providing information to a
>third
>> party. In the former case, the patient was quite right - the doctor was
>> "their" doctor. Where she was wrong was to suspect his objectivity.
>> Incidentally, I feel that his clinical suspicionwas reasonable and that
>it was
>> ethically correct to act as he did.
>>
>> Emile de Sousa
>
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