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Another industry faced systemic life-and-death problems like this. Air travel. They use extensive checklists that they run like human computers before every flight, from the smallest cessna to the largest airbus.

My mom, the NP, says doctors, as a group are too proud to ever use lists like that. She asked me how the "pride issue" was dealt with among pilots. I suggested that when it comes to airplanes, prideful pilots have a way of sorting themselves out one way or another.

Source: I'm a timid GA pilot who actually shouted "I'm a leaf on the wind" at my plane during my first solo...

parent noonespecial 10 years ago

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