[pavulon]

There are lots of things to cause problems in the ICU but one of the largest is that patients there are often in dire straits...aircraft analogs would (should) not be flown. For most people, there were no mandatory annual inspections or repairs.

Another is that the people working there go home despite any terrible events. They have emotional skin in the game but typically not their own hides. So, training after school often takes a back seat to their personal lives.

We could go on and on about differences but having worked in ICUs and flown as pilot in command, I think standardization in healthcare can only go so far. People are not mechanical things.