Comments on: Comparing the airline industry to the medical profession http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/11/comparing-airline-industry-to-medical.html medical blog Sun, 22 Nov 2009 07:50:13 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/11/comparing-airline-industry-to-medical.html/comment-page-1#comment-81921 Anonymous Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:57:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/11/comparing-the-airline-industry-to-the-medical-profession.html#comment-81921 I'll buy the medicine=aviation comparison when aircraft are maintained like this:<br/><br/>http://www.micom.net/oops/AirMaint.jpg I’ll buy the medicine=aviation comparison when aircraft are maintained like this:

http://www.micom.net/oops/AirMaint.jpg

]]> By: Anonymous http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2007/11/comparing-airline-industry-to-medical.html/comment-page-1#comment-81908 Anonymous Thu, 29 Nov 2007 12:51:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2007/11/comparing-the-airline-industry-to-the-medical-profession.html#comment-81908 But also much unlike medicine.<br/><br/>Flying the low cost airline grants you exactly the same chance of arriving at your destination alive. In the most fundamental measure of efficacy, all airlines are alike. They might differ in measures of secondary efficacy, like on time percentage, baggage loss, comfort, food, etc., but it is unclear whether there is a positive corrrelation with cost (i.e. does spending more improve these measures). But also much unlike medicine.

Flying the low cost airline grants you exactly the same chance of arriving at your destination alive. In the most fundamental measure of efficacy, all airlines are alike. They might differ in measures of secondary efficacy, like on time percentage, baggage loss, comfort, food, etc., but it is unclear whether there is a positive corrrelation with cost (i.e. does spending more improve these measures).

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