(Me vs. Driver's Licenses) With help like this . . .

So I get a call from the Disability Law Center this afternoon.  Janis on the other end asks me if I had gotten the information packet they had sent me.  I told her no.  So she gets my email address and send me a cut and paste copy of the information that is listed on the DPS's website about the medical certification for driver's licenses and that's it.  Problem is, I've already read this.  This information doesn't address the reason why ALL disabled people need to certify medically every year, just that they do.  I sent back an email to her asking the following:

1)  So based on this generic information, am I supposed to write a CC'd letter to the Medical Advisory Board members asking them for more information and a request to reconsider their ruling or do they recommend starting with someone else first?

2) Should I first contact my doctor up at the Rehabillitation Clinic at the University of Utah so that I have someone to whom I can obtain medical documentation to the abilities of people with disabilites whose level of function is not expected to decline above the average person of non-disabled status?

Still no response as of this writing, not that I expected one.  It was around 3:20pm when I wrote her back.  Having worked an office job myself once upon a time, things rarely get addressed after 3pm that are of a non-urgent manner, more so, I suspect, at a not-for-profit advocacy agency.  Or at least, if the advocacy opportunity doesn't happen to be one of it's pet projects.  Oh sorry, I meant Priority Issues.

Another wondering I had was at the list of credentials of the individuals on the Medical Advisory Board.  We have as follows:

• Endocrinology
• Neurology
• Opthlamology
• Geriatrics
• Occupational Therapy
• Internal/Occupational Medicne 

If the first four were the only medical professionals on the board, it would be almost understandable that the rules are read like they do.  Most likely the last person they had to deal with either a major paralysis or SCI was in medical school or during their internship, and since then had given little thought to the matter.  But I'm thinking 'for shame' to the occupational therapist and internal/occupational medicine doctor who is also the current medical director for one of the largest work-med centers in the state.  I don't know how these things are worked out.  Maybe because they are considered only Expert Panel Members instead being on the Executive Committee, like the first three are, that their input is given little credance.  Just as my husband just pointed out, its a committee you would put together to evaluate the elderly.  Well, I'm not elderly, and I don't like being treated like I am just because I have a disability.