Come on guys,

One of the greatest things that has come along to promote your health and well being during your working years and retirement was the change from the "you can't take anything" to let's treat the problem. I believe one of the reasons why airline pilots died young was that they either didn't seek medical help or got it on the DL. There was a time when no high blood pressure medications were allowed. How many pilots lived for years with border line high blood pressures that any MD today would treat. When the FAA finally allowed them, it was a mandatory 6 months off and then a battery of tests to get your medical back. Today, it's a two week wait and any AME can get you back into the air. The only thing holding the FAA back on depression was a stigma that some even today hold.