Why is it different in something like aviation? My guess is because the failures are more visible, …
… Why is it different in something like aviation? My guess is because the failures are more visible, they're on the nightly news, people are there posting pictures on social media? For whatever reason, I don't think pilot organizations ever managed to remove themselves from scrutiny in the same way as physicians did. We see pilots as highly skilled professionals, but part of a system, with alternatives, and the subject of fair scrutiny from outsiders who are not pilots: engineers, safety experts, investigators and so forth. In my experience when these kinds of issues come up in healthcare though, everyone defers to physician groups themselves, as if no one else has expertise enough to scrutinize them. I imagine too at some level, part of the issue is that the pilots themselves are subject to their own mistakes: if a pilot crashes a plane, they take themselves out at the same time. If a surgeon makes a mistake and kills a patient, they still walk home and can rationalize whatever they want, all they want. I'm growing unsympathetic to these types of essays (the one linked). …
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