Kinsman, yup your right, the captain is my boss for the day, but you missed the point I was trying to make.
If our SOP's state that Medlink must be contacted first, then why does the captain feel it necessary to change that? What other SOP's does he feel like changing?
Not all cabin crew are under the delusion that they are in command of the aircraft, but I wish that the flight crew would stop being so bloody paranoid about cabin crew.
By reiterating in your post that basically cabin crew should do as we are told goes against everything that CRM has been trying to get around for years and I feel it has no place in todays airlines. Captains are part of the team on board, we all work together and those that don't work in the team stand out a mile and IMHO should be managed out the business.
Oh and by the way, I would do as the Captain or FO asked, because he asked me to do it ...