However, my own feeling was that depressed pilots and epileptic taxi drivers were different enough to feel distinct, and I've trade to make the solutions and arguments distinct from that issue. However, option 1 still remains nigh identical, and I'm open to opinions that the overlap here is excessive. Even if it never makes it, at least I'll get to share my writing here.
TITLE:
Fit to Drive
VALIDITY:
Cars legal. Civil rights at a level where below situation likely to be normal procedure.
DESCRIPTION:
A taxi cab literally ploughed through a field of cabbages last week, mauling swathes of brassica as the vehicle zig-zagged erratically across the land. The driver was having an epileptic seizure, and it has since transpired that his doctor had told him he wasn't fit to drive, but had left it to the driver himself to report this fact to the licensing authorities.
OPTION 1
"Sure, I've just lost some crops, but imagine if this fitting fool had mowed through a crowded street or a school playground. Just mentally picture if this was a human head, rather than a cabbage head!" says farmer Ivor Strawman, waving a mauled white savoy in your face, which has to be said has a striking resemblance to his own unprepossesing facial features. "We can't rely on people's honesty -- doctors should report to the police and to licensing authorities directly when their patients are unfit to drive."
OUTCOME:
medical confidentiality is a confidence trick
OPTION 2
"A requirement for doctors to act as informants could undermine confidentiality and the physician-patient relationship," reads Dr. Gently-Duzzit from prepared notes, who has faced litigation enough times to be very careful with @@HIS@@ words. "Potentially, a patient might be motivated to keep a history of fits from their own doctor, which could in turn lead to undertreatment and greater risk to both the patient's health, and to that of road users. Pause for emphasis. In this circumstance, the doctor's duty to society ends with informing the patient of their obligations. This is..." @@HE@@ squints a little at the piece of paper. "Uh, I can't read my own writing. Something something, squiggle, something. Anyway, that's what I think."
OUTCOME:
what happens in hospital stays in hospital
OPTION 3
"I mean, I'm not sure why I had to give up my work at all," points out the former taxi driver, who is holding a sign that says 'will give controversial opinions for spare change'. "I mean, I gotta earn a living, haven't I? If the liberal elite in government and medicine want to put people out of work by telling them they can't drive, then they should give them a load of money to make up for their lost earnings. I mean, I pay my taxes, figuratively speaking. What about me?"
OUTCOME:
welfare fraud is worth giving a fair shake
