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Compared to aviation, bad outcomes in medicine are a) not news material and also b) taken into account beforehand.

Phobias apart, we simply do not expect to die, when we fly. In contrast, we openly consider % survival rates of medical procedures. These rates have human error already baked in, and would be lower if humans made less errors. And then there is the primal fear of not getting help, if needed, because no help was available, which certainly works on our collective will to action here.

A 50% survival procedure for medicine might work, because it's either that or death. Aviation is always a few plane malfunctions (not even outright crashes) in quick succession away from the entire industry crashing.



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