Doctors must assess the risk they can accept by treating someone 10,000 metres in the air and with a captive audience Doctors must assess the risk they can accept by treating someone 10,000 metres in the air and with a captive audience B ritish Airways flight 032, bound for London, was still on the tarmac in Hong Kong when Prof Angus Wallace heard the passenger announcement dreaded by many medics: “If there is a doctor on board, would they please make themselves known to cabin staff.” Wallace,