REWIND<< Medical fitness to drive

This popular episode was first published in 2019. Australia and NZ are made up of sprawling cities and far-flung towns and driving is often viewed as a fundamental freedom. It can be hard for clinicians to challenge that freedom with patients who they consider unfit to drive safely. And harder still to deal with the consequences if a patient does have a crash. There are diagnoses that should raise red flags for driving fitness in various specialty areas, and a clinician can be drawn in...