Yes from what I gathered from her even an AOC who have a jet fitted out for medical work have to shift that duty of care to a medical unit (ie Doctor or Hospital)
They are not qualified to determine what equipment or care needs to be on board to carry a particular patient and some of that equipment may be very specialized as maybe the Doctors/nurses onboard.
so the medical response for the patient is fully at the onboard physician , correct ?
Whatever the Hospital/ Doctor stipulates regarding medication, equipment, Expert attention etc must be onboard for the flight to occur.
In certain situations there may not be any care required onboard for the flight other than a stretcher to lie on.
But the duty of care will have been taken by the hospital/Doctor to stipulate that and not by a medically unqualified AOC operation or Pilot doing the flight as a favor.
Maybe this should be in the medical section for a more detailed opinion?
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