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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Less Doctors, More Gurus, A
Pilot Medical Solution
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma – March 27, 2012 – Pilot
Medical Solutions, today announced it will hire more gurus and less
doctors. The nation’s oldest aviation medicine company, which has been
providing help for pilots continuously since 1994, found that the majority
of aviation medical cases do not require a physician. Their cost-benefit
analysis also confirmed that using physicians, instead of government
document gurus, unnecessarily increased cost and in most cases delayed
timely processing.
Pilot Medical Solutions does employ physicians and
states it will continue to consult with specialists as needed. When the
FAA’s Chief of Medical Certification retired recently, Pilot Medical
Solutions hired him to provide aeromedical summaries for complex cases,
but Pilot Medical Solutions newest Guru, Amanda Scruggs, says most cases
are approved due to the work of document managing Gurus, who are
intimately familiar with the FAA requirements and tirelessly mount
flight-fitness packets.
Administrative Gurus hired by Pilot Medical Solutions
must have extensive knowledge of FAA medical criteria, experience managing
government paperwork, and they must be tenacious to help pilots with
jeopardized medical issues.
“This is not rocket
science” says Scruggs. “Our job is to assure the livelihood of pilots
through timely document management. What pilots need is someone who knows
what the FAA expects and is willing to spend several hours calling,
faxing, sending and reading emails, pouring over complex paperwork,
working with the pilots’ personal physician to explain essential
phraseology and assuring compliance with constantly changing FAA
requirements. This is a labor intensive, heavily bureaucratic process
which is usually counter-intuitive to doctors.”
Pilot Medical Solutions even has its gurus managing
clients who themselves are physicians. An objective indication that
Document Gurus are best suited to help pilots obtain FAA waivers.
Contact: Amanda Scruggs, Pilot Medical
Solutions, Inc. | 405-787-0303
Fax: 405-787-0084, Email: info@leftseat.com
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January 3, 2012 -
FAA's Aerospace Medical Division
Manager Joins Pilot Medical Solutions, Inc. amid waiver case increase.
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma - January 3, 2012 - Pilot
Medical Solutions, Inc.,(PMSI), announced that Dr. Warren S. Silberman
will now provide direct consultation to airmen via Pilot Medical
Solutions' fee-for-service agreements to assist with its escalating
clientele.
Pilot Medical Solutions has seen a sharp rise in
Special Issuance (waiver) certification in 2011 and welcomed Dr.
Silberman's assistance. Pilot Medical Solutions' Director David Hale
stated, "we have seen a 75 percent increase in 2011 and Dr. Silberman is
the perfect solution."
As former manager of the FAA Aeromedical
Certification Division, Dr. Silberman will provide key insight to airmen
seeking medical certification and assurance to applicants unfamiliar with
FAA standards. As the FAA's aeromedical certification "chief", Dr.
Silberman was responsible for rules and regulations changed under his
watch. "Doctor Silberman has the sine qua non combination of knowledge
and empathy", Hale stated.
Dr. Silberman served as the FAA Aeromedical
Certification Chief for 14 years and was Manager of the Aerospace Medical
Certification Division at the Civil Aerospace Medical Institute since June
1997. He served in the United States Army Medical Corps and Oklahoma Air
National Guard as the State Air Surgeon until his retirement in 2005. He
is Board Certified in Internal Medicine and Preventive/Aerospace Medicine,
a Fellow of the American Osteopathic College of Internists, American
Osteopathic College of Occupational and Preventive Medicine, the Aerospace
Medicine Association, and the Civil Aviation Medical Association. Dr.
Silberman is a featured speaker and author, providing regular content for
the Federal Air Surgeons Bulletin and co-authored the chapter on Civil
Aviation Medicine in the Fundamentals of Aviation Medicine Textbook.
Pilot Medical Solutions has built a solid reputation
by providing confidential personalized service and hands-on medical case
management. This expansion follows the increased demand for confidential
aeromedical case management services pioneered by Pilot Medical
Solutions. Pilot Medical Solutions has served the aviation community
continuously since 1995.
Utilizing a unique approach, PMSI provides
confidential acceleration of medical certification and administrative
support for aviation medical examiners worldwide.
Contact: Sara Reed, Marketing Director, Pilot Medical Solutions, Inc. |
405-787-0303
Dr. Warren S. Silberman
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PILOTS REWARDED FOR INFORMATION
OKLAHOMA CITY – Pilots in-the-know are are being asked to refer their grounded pilot
friends to Pilot
Medical Solutions, Inc. an aeromedical pilot advocate firm seeking to help
pilots with medical waivers in Oklahoma City.
Pilots are invited to submit
names online and earn $200 for each client referred. Altruists
wishing to waive compensation can pass the money on to the grounded pilot
in the form of discounted services.
“This program has provided the much-needed encouragement for many pilots
who have been affected by the current aviation trough,” said David Hale,
Chief Executive for Pilot Medical Solutions. “While our goal is to help
pilots who have lost medical certification, this program has also given active
pilots a fulfilling role as they help their friends return to flying.”
The
program, initially created for in-house marketing reps, became
available to all pilots in October 2002 effectively revisiting the
company's 1995 birth when David Hale set out to help a fellow Bonanza
pilot with his FAA medical.
Pilots can submit names online at: www.leftseat.com/rewards or by calling
800-699-4457.
Founded in 1995, Pilot Medical Solutions, Inc. is the only independent
aeromedical advocate company in existence assisting more than 20,000
pilots each year via their toll-free pilot hotlines and online at
www.leftseat.com.
CONTACT: David Hale 800-699-4457
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