Sillsoe Sid
This is exactly what I said. We are confusing the confusion
Sadly for pilots not everything in medicine has references. A reference would be hard to come by as you would have to do research involving perhaps 100 divers and the numbers don't exist. I think what you are looking for is a protocol but nobody has written it. That doesn't mean however that we don't know the pathophysiology of decompression which is why we can determine what we should and should not do.
As for a doctor telling you flying at 500 feet is not safe I can assure you we doctors in the back have as much self preservation as the next man
And some of us doctors also work in the front office on our days off!