Originally Posted by
AZ Travels the World
But they didn't. In the process of taking care of the passenger, he was surprised by what was in the medical kit -- and what wasn't. And was particularly surprised at the drugs that were past their expiration. Wouldn't UA be curious to hear about these observations from a physician who had cared for one of their customers, and helped to avert a very costly diversion? So that perhaps the next time, they were better equipped?
The state of medical care aboard aircraft in the U.S. does seem a mite Paleolithic. See the NYT's treatment of the story earlier this year,
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/24/he...pagewanted=all
Originally Posted by nyt
“Aviation is held up as this paragon of safety, yet here’s this nasty thing that happens with no standard for reporting,” said one of the article’s authors, Dr. Melissa Mattison, associate director of hospital medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center in Boston. “We know more about animals that die on airplanes than we do about people.”