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>They have to "do more with less" (Not limited to public sector, see Boeing), and that works for a while, until it doesn't.

Yes, which brings us back to the point I made about it being a numbers game. IF you start cutting back pilots sleep and planes' QA to boost profits, you'll reach the "it doesn't work" phase (planes dropping from the air killing everyone) much sooner and at a steeper rate than with overworked doctors where the decline is a lot slower and gradual hence why this issue gets ignored more easily by those in charge, because it's so slow that people keep getting used to this as the new normal.

IF a few Boeings fall from the sky, people might stop flying Boeings, but people won't stop going to the doctor just because some people get killed from malpractice (which is statistically more likely than dying in a plane crash).



It's easier for the public to recognize and be outraged about 237 dead airline passengers compared to 237 dead patients even if both are caused by overtired pilots or "providers" (I hate that word for it's vagueness).




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