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orfeo
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Originally posted by Erroneous Monk:
There are lots of reasons why we don't let certain people do certain jobs.
Are there?
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Erroneous Monk
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Originally posted by orfeo:
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Originally posted by Erroneous Monk:
There are lots of reasons why we don't let certain people do certain jobs.
Are there?
Yes. I'm an auditor. If my husband wants to invest (or keep investments, including pension, if he already has them when we take on new work) in one of my audit clients, I'll either have to change jobs or change husbands. There are restriction on where he can work. These are punishments for me, they're just the way it is.
People with certain medical conditions aren't going to be driving or flying for a living.
Criminal records can affect ability to work in government, health care, the police etc.
Having a politician for a spouse affects who you can work for.
Not punishment - just risk management.
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mdijon
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Yes - earlier I was going to bring up people with diabetes who aren't allowed to be heavy goods vehicle drivers, or people with epilepsy who aren't allowed to drive.
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orfeo
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Originally posted by mdijon:
Yes - earlier I was going to bring up people with diabetes who aren't allowed to be heavy goods vehicle drivers, or people with epilepsy who aren't allowed to drive.
In which case I will happily bring up the example of a diabetic who fought, and won, the right to be an ambulance driver because he demonstrated that people's blanket assumptions about his inability as a diabetic to perform the functions of the job were wrong.
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Sioni Sais
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Originally posted by mdijon:
Yes - earlier I was going to bring up people with diabetes who aren't allowed to be heavy goods vehicle drivers, or people with epilepsy who aren't allowed to drive.
With improved anti-convulsants more people with epilepsy can now drive (in the UK at any rate) and specifically the disqualification period after tonic-clonic episodes (Grand mal, as was) is down to one year from three. Precious little chance of getting an HGV, still less a commercial pilots licence, and it's a bugger getting motor insurance: that hasn't moved along.
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mdijon
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Originally posted by mdijon:
Yes - earlier I was going to bring up people with diabetes who aren't allowed to be heavy goods vehicle drivers, or people with epilepsy who aren't allowed to drive.
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Originally posted by orfeo:
In which case I will happily bring up the example of a diabetic who fought, and won, the right to be an ambulance driver because he demonstrated that people's blanket assumptions about his inability as a diabetic to perform the functions of the job were wrong.
So what? The rules are almost certainly wrong in some instances, but I think the rule about no driving for a certain period of time after a seizure and no driving for a certain period of time after a heart attack is sensible.
Some diabetics can perfectly safely drive and have almost no risk of going hypo, but anyone at high risk of a hypo really shouldn't be doing something high risk. The question is how carefully one defines the risk - all diabetics, diabetics on insulin, diabetics on insulin with a history of hypos or something even more sophisticated.
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