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> * I strongly believe that only physicians should be running hospitals. Strong disagree. This same attitude pervades the military ("only pilots should run the

• advael 5y ago
  Those are extremely different situations and you’ve not really justified why they’re being compared. A “doctor bias” in every decision being made would ideally prioritize health outcomes over decisions made for profit or convenience. It’s possible that doctors will make poor decisions too, but on balance our expectation based on their training is that decisions made because of healthcare outcomes would be more likely in this scenario than the current state of affairs, which prioritizes economic considerations as administrators in every context currently tend to
  • bumby 5y ago
    I think the point is that "doctor bias" will not take a balanced approach to the other systemic factors. I'd argue it's the same with the pilots. If you asked pilots, they'd likely say the same thing: their priorities are going to align with the mission better than anyone else's. Anecdotally, this has been true in my experience on complex engineering projects. When the project manager is a mechanical engineer, guess which systems get the most time, money, and priority? Mechanical. And when it's an electrical engineer, the electrical system gets the priority. When it's a software engineer, the software etc. They all recognize the other systems, but availability bias skews their worldview and priorities to the neglect of others.