Originally Posted by
Keepthembodiesmoving
There most certainly is a ´drill´ in many medical settings nowadays.
Google ´medical protocol´ and you´ll see what I mean.
Standardized diagnosing, standardized treatment; it´s all here and causes many medical veterans to decry cookbook medicine.
Checklists are a good thing, but just like in the cockpit, it takes training, experience and intrinsic airmanship/doctorhood to know when it is imperative to deviate from the SOP.
The reality of-course, is that a well constructed checklist frees up an experts mental capacity to do the clever stuff - whether that's judging the best approach to a landing in marginal conditions, or deciding how much tissue to cut out around a tumour.
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