So was the piloting profession (in part because many pilots were ex-military), and yet somehow, that culture was changed to one of standard procedures, checklists, and Crew Resource Management. I'm still hopeful that the same can happen in medicine.
I mean, the military is itself a hierarchical and conservative organization in which standard procedures, checklists, etc. are not exactly out-of-norm.
Sure, the military has medical professions, but the military is not as dominant a source of medical professionals as it has been for professional pilots. So, it seems (to me, at least) plausible that military culture might have a substantially stronger impact on the piloting profession than medicine.