We have, for example, read on here in recent times of professional pilots on anti-depressants and other psycho-active medications.
Presumably those same countries will be just as liberal in their approaches to epileptic, or perhaps even blind, pilots.
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Can not let this pass in fairness to all the PROFESSIONAL aircrew out there who are making a valuable contribution for the good of all and are no more likely to do something untoward than any other, and the Australian aviation medical fraternity who support them. A clinical assessment is made by a board of experts at the licensing authority and each case is judged on its merits, just as it is with an individual with heart difficulties. The swipe you take in your post towards the Australian authorities is uncalled for and have yet to see any rebuttal of the study they have made on this issue. I have a feeling that you may be some what close minded on examining the issue. Like pilots, the medical profession can be very conservative and unwilling to grasp new concepts and thinking. Witness the difficulty Barry Marshall of the Western Australia's Fremantle Hospital had in convincing the fraternity that most stomach ulcers were caused by Campylobacter like bacteria (Helicobacter pylori) and treatable with antibiotics. The Lancet rejected the publishing of his findings but he did end up with a Nobel Prize for his work. Your advice is much appreciated by all, but please lets be a little more forward looking and open to the notion that the Belgrano is not the font of all wisdom.