Medications

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Pilot Protection Services

| April 1, 2025

Spitting Camels, Gila Monsters, Ozempic, and Hollywood

It is now over 100 years since the discovery of insulin, a hormone produced by the pancreas that controls glucose levels.

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Pilot Protection Services

| March 1, 2025

Do I Eat, or Do I Take My Meds?

I teach my students to prescribe appropriate medications to ensure patients receive efficacious and safe therapy. Evidence-based therapy is listed in each guideline of the disease state I am teaching. What is not listed is the cost of the medication recommended.

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Pilot Protection Services

| February 1, 2025

Counterfeit Medicines

Heard the one about the chap claiming to be a professional counterfeiter? He had the documents to prove it! Counterfeit derives from Old French—contre (“counter or against”) and faire (“to make”), the combined meaning “to make an imitation.”

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Pilot Protection Services

| December 1, 2024

Use the Checklist!

Our general aviation community is large, and yet it’s a tightly knit group of aviators who use aircraft for recreational travel as well as business.

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Immune System Health

| November 1, 2024

The Art, Science, and Gut-Wrenching Story of Antibiotics

Fall is upon us as the leaves change colors, temperatures are cooler, and density altitudes provide better performances for our flights. Influenza (flu), sinusitis, and pneumonia will soon knock on our door.

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Medications

| July 1, 2024

It Brings Me Great Joy to Welcome Dopamine and Norepinephrine to the Serotonin Antidepression Family

The list of approved antidepressant medications for the FAA has expanded dramatically since May 21, 2023. The four original SSRI antidepressants were approved for use by the FAA on April 5, 2010.

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Alcohol Drug Testing

| May 1, 2024

One Size Does Not Fit All

Teaching and disseminating medication information has been my mission for almost 44 years. I was very fortunate to have the opportunity to write a two-part series for the Pilot Protection Services on medications that may cause a false positive drug test (PPS June and August 2021).

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Wellness

| March 1, 2024

Breath In, Breath Out, All Is Good

An average breath rate is 16 to 20 breaths per minute. I pulled out my abacus and calculated that I breathe 23,040 times daily. This fantastic process occurs without me thinking I need to breathe. My one exception is when I practice yoga. Yoga is all about the breath.

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Checklists

| January 1, 2024

Buyer Beware Where Is The Medical Evidence for Supplements and Herbal Products

I am a checklist fiend. Upon awakening, I perform my awake checklist. “I am alive, and my bodily functions are good.” I proceed to my meditation and enjoy my day. Once a week, I teach Physician Assistant students.

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RESOURCES

Medications

PPS Medical Mailbag

Sample Aircraft Purchase-Sale Agreement

Other Helpful Resources

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