article_snippet.sent: More dangerous than a pilot with a mental illness – or any number of other professions that carry the responsibility of a great many lives – is that one with a mental illness who will not seek treatment because he does not trust he doctor.
article_snippet.sent: The Germanwings pilot had been forced to stop The Germanwings pilot training because of severe depression and had received psychotherapy for several years before last week's Alps disaster.
article_snippet.sent: But German law meant German law was left entirely up to The Germanwings pilot to volunteer The Germanwings pilot mental health problems to The Germanwings pilot employer, something The Germanwings pilot failed to do with devastating consequences after tearing up a sick note for the day of the crash.
article_snippet.sent: So another way of thinking about he scenario is that perhaps if he had trusted he doctor even more – and shared with he or his doctor the way in which he was thinking of committing suicide –
article_snippet.sent: his doctor could have done more to help he and to protect the passengers of the aircraft he piloted.
article_snippet.sent: If they had been aware of the sick note things might have been different.