Might depend if it was his personal doctor or company doctor.
I don’t know which is the case. Nonetheless, you’d think they would not write a note, but physically call the company even if it were a private doctor. The doctor had to know this guy was a commercial pilot.
Someone is going to really regret helping this guy hide his psych issues, if this story is accurate.
Agreed.... Unfortunately, even for a high profile case such as this with so much that was on and is on the line, we'll likely never know any details i.e. what the note was exactly for, what the thinking was of the doctor, what exactly was the purpose of the note etc. You would think that it wouldn't be possible for the doctor to not be informed as to his profession but maybe that was actually hidden from him. Regardless, I can't wrap my mind around the concept of the fate of this aircraft depending on whether or not a sick pilot acted upon a hand scribbled note from his doctor.