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Family Health By CLAY WILLIAMS Target-Impaired Driven A driver's license has got to be something akin to a person's most treasured possession. Usually it is the first official document we receive as a teenager. On the other end of life's spectrum, it is accepted as evidence that we are still' In control of our physical and mental faculties sufficiently to operate an automobile. When a driver is involved in a blatant automobile blunder, there sometimes emits from the public a hue and cry that his or her license should be taken forthwith. When the blunder happens to be someone in the pre viously mentioned age range, the wails turn into shattering crescendos ? capability notwithstanding. While attention is riveted on driving inefficiencies of the young and old ? es pecially the old ? another group piles up a mountain of accident statistics resulting in a monumental loss of life and property. I refer to the drunk driver. But whether .driver impairment is the r*$ult of alcohol, age, physical or mental impair ment, the State has a pro gram to deal with the prob lem ? effici{3ltly ? and they do. It is called the N.C. Driver Medical ^Evaluation System. The DMES is a cooperative effort between the Depart-' ment of Motor Vehicles (DMV), the State Medical Society and the Division of Heahh Services. Whenever a driver is found to have a disability sufficient to impair his driving effectiveness ? one that an examiner cannot properly evaluate ? he is asked to have his doctor complete a medical report on him. Results of the report are computerized by DMV and become a part of the driver's history. The report is then sent to the MES office for review by Dr. Fred Patter son, medical advisor, and Douglas Wooten, who heads the program. While options available to the medical advisor, plus appeals open to the impaired driver may indicate the process of review is plod ding, the importance of a driving license must be con sidered in terms of the disadvantage one suffers when deprived of mobility in the "instant" society in which we live. Based upon facts of the case, the medical advisor may modify driving privileges or request further review by a panel of doctors selected from 36 designated me'dical consultants from, throughout the state. The panel's opinions are arrived at independently. The medical advisor makes his decision based on those opinions and any other per-_ tinent information available^ to him. The judicious Tdview process also grants a sup posedly impaired driver the right of appeal ? first to a driver license medical review board and ultimately to Superior Court. When one notes the 359 alcohol-realted road deaths in N.C. in 1980, not to mention 12,000 injuries, public condemnation of the courts for seeming leniency, is understandable. Wooten tends to side with the public in the matter and feels the total court system is probably too lenient in dealing with drunk drivers. There is no questioning the effectiveness of the DMkS. And wpile we so rag times seethe at the carnage caused by an obviously im paired driver (for whatever reason), it is well to re member that there are thou sands operating vehicles in a safe manner who have ac cepted restrictions handed out by the DMES. It would be easy and alto gether fitting, according to some, to establish dictorial rules and regulations in evaluating impaired drivers, but that is not the American way. While we may fret over judicial ineptness and bureaucratic deliberateness in dealing with impaired drivers, we must, neverthe less, applaud the N.C. 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