It would be very dependent on the doctor in question what can be billed to an insurance and what not.
in the case of cardio problems, they will refer you to a specialist who has accreditation with the competent authority. In such a case, it may be advisable to make the guy your treating doctor if he is capable as well as pro-patient rather than one of those who try to ground as many folks as possible in their practice. (I had an AME like that, he almost got me to stop flying, the AME I have now is super an I would trust him as my personal doc as well, which btw is what some of his clients do).
In the case where he is the treating doc, he can do a lot of testing needed to prove to the CAA that you are fit to fly again as part of the treatment and simply share the documentation with the CAA when the time comes, in this case only the stuff they would not do will have to be payed by the patient himself, including the paperwork for the CAA. In the other case, it is likely that all tests and procedures will be done twice and the full cost ends up with you.
BTW, you as a doc, mabe you could eventually become one of those AME’s who as a pilot yourself can be one where pilots will go to because they know you will be diligent but will also help them if there is a problem, in as so far as to tell them what needs to be done to keep/regain their medical and possibly actively support them during this. I wish there were a lot more of them.
I’d love to be an AME on the side, but the prerequisite training would for me require a major detour from my current specialist training as an anaesthesiologist. I have to look further into this, but 18 months of full time training separate from my current job seem to be the minimum to become an AME, possibly in addition to 4 years of training in internal medicine!
Please pardon my ignorance but what is the differenece between an anaesthetist and an anaesthesiologist?
Thanks
Fenland_Flyer wrote:
Please pardon my ignorance but what is the differenece between an anaesthetist and an anaesthesiologist?
Thanks
There is no difference really. Anaesthesiologist is just a slightly fancier way of saying anaesthetist. The suffix -logos is ancient Greek (English: -logy) and basically means “the (academic) teaching of X”. We mostly refer to ourselves as “Anästhesist” or “Narkosearzt”, which is the German word. Nobody in Germany refers to themselves as “Anästhesiologe” except in situations where academic snobbery is called for (usually when talking to other doctors with an attitude).
Dwelving deeper into the topic of AMEs, I found out that there are AMEs class I and class II, the former required for class I medicals and the latter sufficient for class II. Becoming a class II AME in Germany apparently only requires a 60 hours course in addition to the completion of medical specialty training (but apparently any specialty suffices!).
So what I read about was the specialisation as offered by my local medical association, this takes 18 months. The LBA (our CAA) does not require this kind of training, but instead having completed the respective courses offered by them.
This means I can become an AME quite quickly apparently, once having completed my training as anaesthetist (which will be at the end of 2019). Good to know…
If you can become an FAA AME also then you can make a lot more money 
I have no idea of the process but I have been told (well, by FAA AMEs) that it is a dead man’s shoes thing.
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