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Honest question: how should someone's domestic violence charge affect your choice of surgeon?
by geezerjay 7y ago
Honest question: how should someone's domestic violence charge affect your choice of surgeon?
- chessturk 7y agoIf they beat women, they may not value them as people?
- jessaustin 7y agoIME it's not uncommon for successful surgeons to be fairly cold about the human body. Maybe that's not quite the same thing as "not valuing people", but ISTM it's on the same spectrum.
- chessturk 7y agoIt's arguable that domestic violence is less cold and more passionate than the characteristics you're describing. I understand there are cold sadists, but speaking to the archetype. Additionally, in the case of a bigot, the outcomes involving subjects of prejudice may be less meaningful to them even at a subconscious level. Coldness and bigotry can coexist, and certainly produce emergent results. Also, that the best outcome of using surgeon who has a history of domestic violence is that they're so disassociated from the world, that beating a loved one doesn't matter is a really strange argument. Perhaps the argument is there isn't a better way, but damn. I used to not be sure about robot surgeons, now I'm pretty convinced.
- K0balt 7y agoIn my experience working with surgeons, while being a bad person is not a good predictor of skill, neither is being a good person. The most absolutely talented and innovative people in medicine are a pretty good mix of kind, empathetic, thoughtful people and BPD / narcissistic / sociopathic people.
- matz1 7y agoIt shouldn't.
- anigbrowl 7y agoAre you kidding? Someone who can't control their anger isn't someone you want poking around your insides with a scalpel. If such a person makes an error during an operation, do you really think they'll be transparent about it?
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- geezerjay 7y ago> Someone who can't control their anger isn't someone you want poking around your insides with a scalpel. If the surgeon is prone to violence fits as you claim he might be, wouldn't it show on his track record as a surgeon?
- Chris_Chambers 7y agoYou know you’ve won the argument when a bunch of full-blown foaming at the mouth retards downvote you without coming up with a single actual reply.
- wnevets 7y agoIf someone who doesn't beat their wife is at-least equally skilled the tie goes to the non wife beater.
- lightgreen 7y agoIt is incorrect to say that they are at least equally skilled. They could be better surgeons, they could be worse. There is no evidence either way.
- wnevets 7y ago>It is incorrect to say that they are at least equally skilled. It's a good thing no one said that then!