Will I get hired if I have cirrhosis

The examiner, just the same as the company has the right to review the long form, the examiner can legally discuss anything with your doctors including past problems to judge whether you are fit to drive or not.

HIPAA has an exemption for regulated industries, especially those that fall under the US DOT authority, it provides little protection if any (depending on the case) for those, and does not provide any protections from people looking at your personal information at the company that you work for.

I had an aunt (by marriage) who died of this disease, she was in the hospital a bunch of times with liver problems and she was a drunk. NOT a social drinker but an outright disgusting lush.

When she was dying, my parents dragged me up to see her for some ungodly reason, she was a real ******* to all of us kids including her own which she beat often and I never got an answer why I had to go but my siblings didn't.

So when we got there she looked like crap, my parents talked to her, she wasn't very responsive but when her brothers and parents came in, she perked up. Beside all the boo hooing and all of that they were doing (it was worst than an old fashioned Italian funeral), they brought something for her to drink - a fifth of cheap whisky - and out came the paper cups, everyone was handed a cup, including me (which my dad grabbed out of my hands). They toasted her demise. I watched her slam down a bunch of drinks before the fifth was gone. She didn't last the night.

I remember distinctly at the funeral that her doctor came to pay his respects and he mentioned to my mom that it was a real surprise that she died so suddenly, she was expected to live for at least another week and my mom - who never minced words - told him that her family killed her with a fifth that they brought in. He just shook his head.

 

Aw. That's horrible. Probably damaging as well.

My family excluded me from visiting my mom in the last week of her life, the steriods and various medicines fighting septis that has taken hold turned into a battle royal which exhibited pretty much the very impressive immune response and so on. But she looked like a over burnt peach. So they protected my last memory of her dating back 6 months on their visit to my place in Arkansas. That was a pretty day. So there is that.

We had one relative, a battle ax if you will. I called her a Aunt. But they used to drag us to the assisted living that she lived in on the 5th floor. (They did not call that by that name in the 70's) Manually dragging a 50 gallon oxygen container half a landing twice per floor to pause 5 minutes pulling on the oxygen until pinking enough to drag on her cigarette. It's almost worth 10 of them to get her to the car, to the store, back up to 5th floor and so on. She was deathly afraid of the automatic elevators, not the old manual motor cars which you may recall.

Finally one day she dropped. And that was that. I hope they buried her deep. Liable to rise up before the second coming now and then to dust off that cemetary ha... /sarcastic.

 

I do not believe there is a blanket FMCSA prohibition on this. The average person with cirrhosis has it because they are an alcoholic OR have a long history of drinking. There are other causes though. Hep B being one. The latter stages it is almost impossible to hide. I see Veterans at the VA hospital a lot and they have it. You will NOT get a medical card if a SHARP eyed Medical Examiner catches that you are in these final stages. An Examiner has the right to ask you to go see your private Physician and have liver tests done to see what the liver function testing shows. Then this does become part of the long form and a carrier will see it. Cirrhosis is a disease of progression. Early stages with proper treatment and lifestyle changes (if caused by alcohol) can go a long way in allowing a person with cirrhosis to stay a driver for many years. Latter stages? Forget it.