Or Conan O'Brien's Dr. Arroyo

Carp Enters: "Help, I cant breathe! Is there a fish tank salesman on the flight?"

I remember an attendant once said "And to those who said they'd 'never fly with us again': Welcome back! " 😂😂😂

Employees who speak pretty cost extra. Forgoing those is just one of the many revolutionary cost cutting innovations of Spirit.

Or maybe a doctor of literature.

Because they don't have to read the magazines in the waiting room? They would have to suffer through a shitty flight though. They spend money on things that affect them personally, I feel like it's not that hard to understand.

Who the fuck reads magazines in a waiting room when you have the entire internet in that small device in your hand

Shit I have a huge library of books I've pirated (I've already got them in hardcover at home) that I read.

You're the only one who hasn't just been using your phone in waiting rooms for 20 years.

No win, you know... except potentially saving another human's life

Pretty sure it would be illegal to not help in quite a lot of countries, especially as a doctor. Apparently USA is not one of those countries.

I've heard many will not jump at it and hope someone else does. But I think most will at least eye the situation and see if they really urgently need medical attention, then sigh deeply and do it anyway if so.

I really hope most doctors will save someone's life even if they don't get paid for it. But who knows? Maybe my faith in humanity is still higher than it should be.

I spend my day around doctors. They take their Hippocratic oath very seriously, and this comment in no way exemplifies most of the practitioner behavior I observe on a daily basis.

The insurance companies and for-profit hospital administrators on the other hand...

If they are asking it is explicitly because it's beyond basic first aid and they're scared. The plane is landing either way, if they are already asking for a doctor, then the decision was already made by the pilots. Afterwards it's a matter of providing proper care until delivered to a emergency services at the airport. All doctors I know will absolutely respond to such a call on a plane, but medical assistance doesn't always include touching or doing something to the patient. Often, it's just looking at them or talking to them (if they're conscious) and advising the flight crew on what the proper care should be like. Ultimately, doctors are useless without proper infrastructure and resources. A surgeon without a hospital is as helpless as the patient and no first aid carries a pharmacy.

Not sure if it's still the case, but airlines used to give flight credits to doctors who helped out. Probably not Spirit though...

I'm a shitty person, therefore everyone else is.

As usual Lemmy downvoting things they don't agree with, even if it's true.

I was with a physician friend on the Las Vegas strip as a guy went down with a heart attack. I'm like, this is your moment! Go save them! And she grabs my arm and yanks me into a doorway so I can't make a commotion, explains that no doctor will simply do that, it means they're on the hook for it, when an EMT is just minutes away and is properly prepared to handle it. She said if doctors didn't obey this unwritten rule, they'd constantly be giving out care to random people, possibly without admitting privileges in nearby hospitals, taking on liability they're not insured for (being outside of a hospital), etc.

So you're completely right.

Source?

I have 3 close friends who are doctors, I have zero doubt they would jump to help in an emergency (I've seen them all do it at various times, though not on planes).

True. We all know the Hippocratic oath. Do no harm (unless it inconveniences a flight of passengers).

Source: I made it up

its the flight to leave your mortal coil.