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The portion pertaining to medicals is on pages 97-98 and states in part:




It also provides several footnotes which could be used to see what sort of evidence was actually adduced by Dr. Bauer. One can actually download his textbook at https://www.google.com/books/edition/Aviation_Medicine/eRx8QgAACAAJ?hl=en . Checking the first chapter on selection of airmen lists a lot of requirements, but as noted, this was a different time and not a lot of evidence base there.


I think this shows that basically this was adopted based on prior military experience and largely the opinions of one man. Unfortunately, like many things adopted by the Federal government, they just continue without being sunsetted or seriously examined. I guess Basic Med is a large step in the right direction though.


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