What Actually Goes Down When You Get Sick on a Plane
From paging a doctor to radioing one on the ground, airlines have ways of coping with illness. But none of them are ideal.
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7 min readNov 13, 2019
It was a moment straight out of a movie. Cyrus Komer, MD, was flying on Delta Airlines from Boston to Vancouver, Canada, on a ski vacation, when a flight attendant asked a…
