NudeDiver
Contributor
What if, what if, what if....you can play that game all day long. What if the person answer "no" because they didn't KNOW they had had some condition. What if the person had a condition 20 years ago and have seen no signs or symptoms since? What if the person is really a water breathing mutant from the planet Lepton and is just taking the class to see what the silly humans are up to these days? It goes on and on.This is part of the problem. Most physicians do know not what an absolute contra-indication to diving is. They think that they're completing a GYM approval. I've seen it myself. I've had a doctor sign off on an epileptic patient before.
That's great. As a student, someone may or may not want you to know that they have asthma or are a diabetic. If they have discussed the issue with their doctor and their doctor has provided a medical clearance, and then that person then chooses to dive and gets a "slow response" from you because you lack this magic information, well, that's the price of privacy, now isn't it?As an instructor, I would want to know that a student has asthma or is diabetic.