Why would our ex-RAF Avionics technician
want to come into biomed in the first place, Eagle (that is, why wouldn't he want to stay in his own line of work)? And surely you wouldn't expect him to just fly straight onto the top of the heap, would you (he would have to be pretty exceptional to pull that one off, I would have thought)?
... I find it amazing that people cannot see what the long term repercussions will be to the medical engineering discipline when employers can no longer recruit people of similar calibre.
What makes you suppose that this will become the case? "Similar calibre" to whom ... those already working in biomed? What "long term repercussions" do you foresee? To my mind, biomed has
already become fairly dumbed-down compared to what it was some years ago. There's a lot of "monkey-see, monkey-do" now, you know ... checklists, procedures that have to be followed
etc., whilst there has been a reduction in good old-fashioned repair work (due to the kit becoming more reliable, due to in turn to improvements in the base technologies
etc., etc.).
