Purpose

I always hold the idea that the AIRS and a "transparent operation" put up by some extra-terrestrials would do no good but merely force us under the limelight for endless medical incidents.

(Two obvious examples were the use of outdated BCG by some obstetric nurses and the injection of syrup morphine to someone with terminal cancer. Yes, they're incidents. But do they worth so many press releases and all the hassles ?)

But I was too naive and completely missed the point. The open strategy, as I would call it, accomplishes at least three purposes:

1. With repeated press release on minor incidents, the media and general public lose their interest. It is now far much more easy to hide a major event. As Agatha Christie said (in The ABC Murders): What is the best place to hide a pin ? In a pincushion !
2. Because new incidents keep coming up, existing ones become outdated very quickly - so that no one would dwell on the follow up action (or the lack of follow up action) for those major incidents.
3. It is probably the most efficient way to reduce the case load of the public health care system.
   

Alas, they have the wisdom. As the old Chinese sayings: 大智若愚.