Expert panel created to review Coast Guard medical-evaluation system

摘要

Confronting serious backlogs in its new mariner medical-evaluation system, the U.S. Coast Guard is assembling an expert panel to suggest improvements.rnThe Merchant Mariner Medical Advisory Committee will identify potential modifications to the National Maritime Center's (NMC) evaluation process. The panel also may help establish better criteria for ailments and medicines spelled out in the most recent Navigation and Vessel Inspection Circular (NVIC).