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Independent doctors should examine hgv applicants
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• A Manchester family doctor last week urged the Government to appoint its own doctors to judge whether drivers are fit to hold heavy goods vehicle licences.
He said that lorry drivers with a history of heart trouble should be examined independently instead of by their own family doctor.
Dr Cyril Bradfield, told a Stoke-on-Trent inquest that lorry driver David Smith came to his surgery for a medical check so that he could obtain an hgv licence.
Mr Smith, aged 54, had suffered one heart attack in 1963 and had other trouble in 1969, said Dr Bradfield. But Mr Smith was an energetic man and if he had failed his medical it would have deprived him of his livelihood, so Dr Bradfield passed him as fit.
Several months later Mr Smith suffered a heart attack while driving his lorry. I plunged out of control down Mi embankment at Hanchurch. North Staffs and he later died in hospital.
Dr Bradfield told the inquest: " examined him very carefully because of hi history of heart illness. You have to decid whether because of a man's history he is no capable of holding a licence which probably deprive him of his livelihood."
After the inquest Dr Bradfield added: " want to see a system whereby patients i: borderline cases are referred to the Ministr: with doctors to act as arbitrators. It wa possible for me to have said that Mr Smitl might suffer a heart attack in the futur because of his history but I couldn't predic when .and where this would hayi happened."
The jury returned an open verdict.