Originally Posted by
Landing Gear
A good friend of mine always carries his hospital ID in case of an emergency. (He's helped out at accidents, etc.)
It's a picture card with the name of the hospital and then something like this:
JOHN DOE, MD
Anesthesiology
He told me no one ever demands a state ID instead.
What would an FA say?
Back when I worked at a big hospital, I was swapping travel stories with a MD on staff and he also ran into an in-flight emergency
(fracture which was just stabilized and didn't even divert the flight). The FAs accepted his hospital ID and business card as sufficient.