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PHYSICAL MEDICINE AND REHABILITATION
Author(s) -
W J LA JOIE
Publication year - 1959
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1959.tb129362.x
drivers indicated that 9·2% of those examined were medically unfit. The two most frequent causes for unfitness were disease of the circulatory system and functional nervous disorder. In conclusion, the author stresses the importance of cardio-vascular lesions in rendering a person unfit for a position involving public safety, and states that in detecting these a careful assessment of the patient's fitness to resume his occupation after a spell of sickness is equally as important as routine periodic medical examinations.