Originally Posted by
Apokleros
I tend to reckon that pilots equally share a vast responsibility of staying, current, behaving legally and morally and maintaining a high level of knowledge equal to that of medical professions. It is a sickening and unfortunate tragedy that we pilots are compensated so woefully.
One might be able to draw comparisons between how many people die at the hands of a pilot vs how many people die due to medical mistakes every year, then balance that against how those mistakes are handled.