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Title: Flying and medicine: mutual lessons
Author/Creator: Nair, Balakrishnan R.
Institution: The University of Newcastle. Faculty of Health, School of Medicine and Public Health
Description: It is said the medical profession should learn from the aviation industry, which has a much better safety record. This is possibly because pilots get a mandatory 8 hours’ sleep. They also have to rest between shifts, for longer than the hours worked. Pilots do everything in duplicate to ensure accuracy. Most importantly, the pilots know that if their passengers are going to die, they are going to die too. So, I think it is high time that medicine looks into emulating the aviation industry.
Relation: Medical Journal of Australia Vol. 189, Issue 11-12, p. 676
Relation: http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/189_11_011208/contents_011208.html
Date: 2008
Publisher: Australasian Medical Publishing Company
Keyword(s): medical profession; pilots; safety records
Resource Type: journal article
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/43579
Identifier: ISSN:0025-729X

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