Avoiding collisions

I agree with Dr Laycock’s views on assessing patients’ ability to drive.1 I believe that properly assessing driving ability requires simulation testing such as that done in Ontario by Candrive2 (albeit at great cost to the patient). Furthermore, we are already challenged in our aging population with conducting many evaluations, such as cognitive testing. Adding driving assessments would be time-consuming and burdensome, taking away from our ability to provide our usual care. I also agree that we might open up a Pandora’s box of legal difficulties. We are already put in a difficult position of having to report patients to the Ministry of Transportation, which creates obvious friction with patients we have cared for for many years. Our ability to properly evaluate patients might be compromised by attempts to avoid further friction with them.

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