I can start with this one just from a commanding officer's perspective, and it's exactly as General Grant has laid out. There's--again I'll use the term--a social contract, but it's more than that. It's laid out in regulations that the medical community or my medical officer is bound to give me the limitations of employment of the soldier under his or her care as well as potential return-to-duty dates. That's all. But all I need to know as a commanding officer is that.
So if a certain prescription has an effect that could affect a soldier's operational ability to do their job, my doctor has to tell me that. I don't need to know the drug or what the effects are.