Originally Posted by
Buswinker
There’s a reason airlines seem to prefer their ground based medical teams...
Agreed, but it will be interesting to see where this case goes (if anywhere).
Our ( and several other) company's medical advisors are specialist ER docs working in a major trauma unit ( they get called to into the mission control side office if we "ring") . They are obviously highly trained in emergency medicine, very experienced, and have at their finger tips access to a breadth of real time info that will not be available to crew or a professional medic on the arcraft. As a result we are cautioned about automatically assuming a doctor on-board is best placed to make a medical decision.
....and like you buswinker we've had instances of well meaning docs voluntering their services and then finding themselves well outside their area of expertise.