Originally Posted by
RichardKenner
Obviously, the card is useless
Obviously.
http://www.tsa.gov/travelers/airtrav...rial_1374.shtm
It is recommended (but not required) that individuals with a pacemaker carry a Pacemaker Identification Card (ID) when going through airport security. Show the Security Officer your pacemaker ID, if you have one, and ask the Security Officer to conduct a pat-down inspection rather than having you walk-through the metal detector or be handwanded.
...and yet TSA employees when presented with such a card are dumbfounded by the novel idea that they actually have a procedure to deal with these situations.
(And it's not safe to assume that even a Pacemaker ID is useful at a TSA checkpoint, nor any other sort of medical condition identifier, because the TSA employees will insist that whatever they're doing is "correct" no matter what the "out-of-date" TSA website says on the topic.)