the chain of command protocols and medical compliance of doctors blindly following orders reminds me of another top-down authority-based professional relationship which can also breed catastrophe. The working atmosphere in a civil aviation cockpit can take on the same level of compliance by primadona pilots where the 2nd in command is ba…
the chain of command protocols and medical compliance of doctors blindly following orders reminds me of another top-down authority-based professional relationship which can also breed catastrophe. The working atmosphere in a civil aviation cockpit can take on the same level of compliance by primadona pilots where the 2nd in command is basically put into a position of passivity. This was common practice during the early days in aviation thru the 1970s where the pilot's word was basically unalterable...and this resulted in numerous aviation accidents where the 2nd in command, who voiced a problem but was unable to convince the pilot of their mistaken error or did nothing to countermand a growing deadly situation. Two 747s crashing together on a takeoff roll was directly to blame to a chief hothead pilot who knew too much to be questioned. Same thing likely can be said of the captain of the Titanic who knew there was ice ahead but plowed ahead at full-speed into a deadly trap. It seems like the entire medical industry is filled with hubris and can do no wrong.
the chain of command protocols and medical compliance of doctors blindly following orders reminds me of another top-down authority-based professional relationship which can also breed catastrophe. The working atmosphere in a civil aviation cockpit can take on the same level of compliance by primadona pilots where the 2nd in command is basically put into a position of passivity. This was common practice during the early days in aviation thru the 1970s where the pilot's word was basically unalterable...and this resulted in numerous aviation accidents where the 2nd in command, who voiced a problem but was unable to convince the pilot of their mistaken error or did nothing to countermand a growing deadly situation. Two 747s crashing together on a takeoff roll was directly to blame to a chief hothead pilot who knew too much to be questioned. Same thing likely can be said of the captain of the Titanic who knew there was ice ahead but plowed ahead at full-speed into a deadly trap. It seems like the entire medical industry is filled with hubris and can do no wrong.