What I find is that when people constantly complain that they're surrounded by idiots, in general the real reason that things are going wrong is that they're not too bright themselves I noticed that with the ambulance/EEG thing a little while back, Crippen never admitted that he was wrong. If he'd done the test himself, the ambulance crew could have taken the patient to the right unit more quickly. So what's he going to do next time? My guess: exactly the same, since everyone except him is an out-of-step idiot. And so, the patient is subjected to unnecessary risk.