In Dubious Battle
“Out of all this struggle a good thing is going to grow. That makes it worthwhile.” John Steinbeck, In Dubious Battle After a fatal aircraft crash, the formal investigative report usually identifies a “chain of catastrophic events” that doomed the “mishap aircraft”. In modern aviation, it usually takes multiple errors or failure to lead to a disaster. In the constant effort of medicine to improve, increasingly, it adopts safety procedures from aviation, such as checklists. You don’t want...