Insurability and employability of young cardiac patients.

Abstract

The conference ended with a sense of improved understanding by the cardiologists, medical directors of life insurance companies, and physicians in industrial medicine of the shared problems and of the opportunities to liberalize the restrictions on insurance and on employment of the adult with congenital heart disease and to remove them altogether for the individual with a bona fide innocent murmur. Like clinical cardiology, insurance medicine is an ever-changing field, and medical directors of insurance companies are willing to consider that they can insure many conditions they had previously declined.