Very clever and very droll PJ2 - thanks for that. Point well taken [I think .....].
There's an excellent article in today's WSJ by an M.D. who expresses annoyance at the frequent comparisons being made these days between commercial pilot training/ops and medical doctor training/ops. His message was basically (and I paraphrase freely),
OK then, let me have a separate support team (FO-equivalent, FAs-equivalent, etc) for every single patient I attend in the hospital. After all, every patient is as big of a problem/challenge for me as is a flight for a commercial pilot .... [
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That would make about 30 teams in all for this doc at any one time, or so he suggested. Writ large, we'd be spending about 75% of GDP on medicine in that case.
He also pointed out that every patient is the equivalent of an aircraft doomed to crash at some time or other - without fail.
hmmmm, that wouldn't look so good on a commercial pilot's record tho' would it?
