But Bob if you start talking to the medical crew about an alternate you are allowing them to influence your decision. The answer comes back 'well hospital X could be OK but they dont have a 64 slice scanner so are you sure we cant just press on'. You dont know what a 64 slice is, you are being bamboozled, and you obviously want to help the patient.
With an experienced medical crew and a relatively inexperienced flight crew the dye is cast. Pressure is on and decisions are made for medical reasons. I saw this time after time in the US in the 1980s.
No, sorry, I firmly believe in a complete Chinese wall. If I am the pilot I TELL the crew we are diverting (ignoring the fact that I am going to be b****** for getting into that position in the first place). If I am the doctor, I merely acknowledge and start redoing the handover to wherever I am told I am going.
Homonculus