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Ferdinando dos Reis Falcão wrote:
>
>RESPONSE: Santosh. Your intelligence is really amazing! The website clearly
>states that “All newly hired employees undergo urine drug testing as a
>condition of employment” ; >which is lab reports, and not a medical
>certificate. Has no one ever told you that hearsay is not acceptable as
>evidence? And I’m here still feeding information to such intelligent
>>specimens of the human race. How mentally challenged I am!!!! By the way, I’m
>moving my goal post to the school for the challenged. So you will not hear
>from me on this topic; >and you are free to shoot as many goals you desire
>which eluded you in this tournament.
>
It is good that Falcao decided not to post any more responses in this thread,
and to go back to school with his goal post, instead. He simply does not know
that a doctor has to certify a cotinine test in this day and age. Please see
for example this medical check up form issued by a doctor's office in which the
cotinine test results have to be signed by the doctor or his/her nurse on
his/her behalf:
http://www.slu.edu/Documents/hr/benefits/2011_SLU_vitality_check_form.pdf
This test did not exist in 1976 when Falcao became qualified to be a general
practitioner, and he appears to have not kept up with the developments in the
medical field since then. Another piece of information in support of the fact
that a doctor can certify that a person is a smoker is the fact that in Great
Britain a doctor can issue a death certificate stating that smoking was the
cause of death. Please see this British Medical Journal article entitled
"Smoking should be mentioned as cause of death on death certificates" as
evidence:
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1113208/
Here is a pertinent quote from it:
QUOTE
Smoking has always been permitted as a cause of death on death certificates in
Britain, but such deaths had to be reported to the coroner. Since September
1992 the coroner has not needed to be notified, provided the disease causing
death was given.
UNQUOTE
Cheers,
Santosh
