So why should medicine be sceptical, or at least think twice before jumping on this bandwagon? Hunt and Callaghan lay out three arguments. The first revolves around the differences between flying and surgery (more about that later). The second is that aviation does not have evidence that CRM training actually improves safety in its own backyard - let alone that it benefits newly colonized areas.2 The final argument is that there should be better ways to spend scarce resources on safety improvements in medicine rather than giving it to mercenaries who have found as Hunt and Callaghan call it, a new 'cash cow'. They may seduce medicine to embrace a 'solution' that will be notoriously difficult to resect once ensconced - if anything because it would give litigators a field day ('Oh, you abandoned your CRM training for surgeons? No wonder errors were made! Now pay up'.). This, some maintain, is an important reason that no airline (or even regulator) in the world is willing to drop CRM training for its crews.
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