The Messiah/God complex is a very real thing with MDs. It's dependant upon the enviroment and training, but a lot of them really do think that they are 'special' and that they have 'proved' themselves via the rigours of school and residency. Their sense of self is tied up into their job preformance. Like in other professions, if you 'attack' their job and their work, you are attacking them personally.
> The Messiah/God complex is a very real thing with MDs.
That's true with pilots, too, especially fighter pilots. But they rigorously use the checklists.
The pilots also know that many crashes have been traced to skipping an item on the checklist. For example, John Denver's fatal crash was due in part to failing to fuel the airplane before flight.
It's also probably partially attributable to the fact that it's their own life on the line if they skip a checklist step like lowering landing gear.
That in combination with training. It's just the cultural thing to do, everyone uses checklists, a pilot from the moment they start training is always doing check lists.
It also helps that a checklist for a plane is always relevant where a checklist for a procedure is more variable.
