new dot medical certificate

Now that is funny, I don't care who you are....

 

It's just such a farce in some ways...good in some as well for these morbidly obese characters to get a handle on things before it's too late.

I went to a quack woman doctor last June to renew mine. I never saw her before, she was a whacko. I have yet to take a pill for anything, blood pressure always normal, lifted weights 25 years ago so consequently I have a little larger frame than her chart shows, and my neck was 1/2" above the 17" circumference criteria. That automatically triggered her attitude that I have sleep apnea. I don't but she insisted I did. Gave me a 6 month card and told me I'm coming back in 6 months to see her and straighten this all out.

My blood pressure popped the relief valve after her rambling on, and I stormed off and went to a different occupational health clinic and left with a normal 2 year card. But...that could be coming to an end shortly too, the "doctor shopping issue". I wasn't shopping for another opinion, I was shopping for something other than "stupid."

 

Gotta remember that there's A good amount of doctors who are tied together with big pharma and base everything on the fact that we all should be on some sort of drug to live. My last PA I used to go to before we moved 50 miles away used to pull that little blue pad out of his pocket every time I went to him. I told him I'm not interested in having to take drugs for every single little ailment and I'll find something more natural to take. He'd just give me the smirk as if to say I'm the doctor, you're not, what do you know. Glad I moved.

 

Yup, renewed mine the other day, same thing...

 

The small card that fit in a wallet was just way to handy and easy. Go "Big Government".

 

Uh..... choke?

Yeah it is.

 

A older friend of mine just got his card renewed. I know the task because I just got renewed about 6 months ago by the same Dr. He makes you squat down and walk like a duck. The older driver said "in all my years of trucking, I've never had to walk like a duck to perform my duties and if I get down that low I'll never get back up". He did end up walking out of there with his card and a little laugh from the Dr.

 

That doesn't look new to me.

I think that MD you went to just uses a more colorful and professional looking certificate, rather than the black and white one.

All the wording and layout looks the exact same though.

 

To see a doctor to be grandfathered? HA. It's a good thing I turned in my CDL a few years ago based on other reasons.... under my State I was grandfathered for a long time as was the spouse.