09-14-81 Civil Service Commission Meeting minutes

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• • Civil Service Meeting September 14, 1981 .Page 27 ~~ Freeman: Dr. Miller gives a pretty extensive Physical. bucks. Randall: He's pretty stiff. I think it's ninety-six Hudgens: Well, I don't mind paying the ninety-six bucks if they do a good, thorough, you know, examination. I've seen some who've had in mind the old military system, you know. Trainer: I know the one we give to what we call our 'key employees' is one-hundred- eighty dollars. That's out of a medical clinic in Houston and that's pretty standard. The ninety dollars wouldn't surprise me at all and probably---- Hud ens: All I'm saying is if we're going to have a physical, I want it to be a good physical. Randall: I know what you mean. Davis: Are you talking about management type----- Randall: You don't get them out of a military-type physical. (un-intelligible--multiple voices) Trainer: It takes a while to really give a good physical. Hudgens: I don't know if that uncludes a stress test or all that other sort of thing. Trainer: Over 45, ours is; over 45 gets a stress test; full stress test. Others get just the normal EKG at rest. Hudgens: I don't know what all Dr. Dunn is doing. Freeman: I don't know. I can find out, but I don't know off-hand. Trainer: A physical exam would be part of the entrance requirements wouldn't it? Hudgens: Yes. Trainer: Yeah, so I think we're going to have to---I think we need to find out currently what's done and look at it. Hudgens: The Police Department is the only one now that we've been requiring physical exams from and not the other employees. We were paying twenty-five dollars for an exam, you know, and we were just blowing twenty-five bucks, you know, and we weren't accomplishing anything so I just--- Davis: Well, when it comes to liability as far as Workmen's Comp. injuries and so forth, your not going to disprove that someone has a back injury or has had one for a long time.