article_snippet.sent: You're taking me off the airplane because I don't have a doctor's note saying I can fly," a woman is heard saying.
article_snippet.sent: All these people are waiting, and I'm being removed as if  I'm a criminal or contagious, because I have cancer and no note to fly.
article_snippet.sent: Egan, the Alaska Airlines spokeswoman, acknowledged that the carrier's policy when someone has a medical issue is to call MedLink, a group of ER nurses and doctors.
article_snippet.sent: The idea, Elizabeth Sedway explained, is that "it is better to address medical issues or concerns on the ground rather than in the air, especially on flights to or from Hawaii" -- which in that case would last five-plus hours over open ocean.