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Definition: Flight Surgeon |
Flight SurgeonNoun1. A medical officer specializing in aviation medicine. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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The flight surgeon is a specialized medical officer in the U.S armed forces. Flight surgeons are usually M.D.s (medical doctors) or D.O.s (physicians), although the position is sometimes filled by a Warrant Officer who is a Physician's Assistant. The Flight Surgeon is responsible for the treatment and certification of aviation personnel eg.pilots, crew members and air traffic controllers.This position requires additional specialized training. It was created as a distinction from standard medical professionals in the armed forces because of the special, and often higher, minimum standards of fitness and physical requirements required by extremely high responsibility job functions of aviators and ancillary personnel. For example, some routine treatments, such as certain antihistamines, when administered to aviation personnel, are cause for temporary grounding (loss of flying privileges) until the therapy and its effects are completed.
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 | Maj. Christian Ledet, flight surgeon for the Iowa Air National Guard's 132nd Fighter Wing, Des Moines International Airport, Iowa, settles into the cockpit of an F-16 Fighting Falcon aircraft just prior to flight-testing the new Libelle anti-gravity suit. |  | Practical Instruction In Personality Study & Flight Surgeon Duties On The FlyingField : School Of Aviation Medicine. Credit: National Library of Medicine. |
 | U.S. Air Force. Hospital, Barksdale AFB, Shreveport, La. : Interior view- Flight Surgeon Section. Credit: National Library of Medicine. | ||
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army flight surgeon | 4 |
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| Language | Translations for "flight surgeon"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Hungarian | repülõorvos. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | ightflay urgeonsay.(various references) | |
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