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by krisoft 1520 days ago
It is a bit more complicated.

We do sometimes punish pilots criminaly. For example one easy way to go to prison is trying to fly a plane under the influence of alcohol. (Here is an example [1])

We do not punish criminaly pilots for other kind of mistakes. For example you are unlikely to go to prison if you miscalculate the required fuel for a flight.

I don’t know the details about the nurse. Was it more like the first or more like the second?

1: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39485928.amp

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I don't particularly care about the nurse being mentioned or the details. I'm far more concerned about the fact that nobody seems to be interested in talking about or making regulatory/process/culture changes at this hospital and/or others to ensure that it can't happen again. It's too easy to make individual nurses responsible for deaths when the actual cause is in the processes that allowed it to happen. I'm not seeing this kind of investigation. Where's the FAA/NTSB equivalent for healthcare?