Originally Posted by
Boeingpilot738
Why would any doctor allow themselves to be put in that position if there was an accident and a paper trail from the psychiatrist?
That is actually a really really interesting question.
The only thing I can think of is that possibly the doctor was either put under extreme pressure by upper management to ignore the psychiatrists recommendation or alternatively the final decision was taken out of his hands entirely. Therefore, the final decision was presumably not even possibly being made by a doctor at all, let alone a specialist!
The latter would actually make more sense to me as upper management would primarily be more concerned about financial implications. Although, last time I checked the resulting class action from an accident would be infinitely more expensive and damaging to the company from a
PR perspective so if that is true then the logic employed by Virgin management is still flawed if relying solely on financial considerations.
I still do not believe that any of this lets the doctor off the hook though for medical negligence. Considering, the significant safety implications of this situation the Virgin doctor could if nothing else have made an anonymous report to CASA. Why did no one at Virgin even consider to do this?