Comments on: Kind vs. Kindly http://drchip.wordpress.com/2008/11/14/kind-vs-kindly/ The director of the Sexual Medicine Center leaves penile implants behind, and launches a quest for knowledge about Artificial Intelligence, extended life, and the issues inside the health-care industry. Mon, 23 Feb 2009 22:52:38 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 By: retired urologist http://drchip.wordpress.com/2008/11/14/kind-vs-kindly/#comment-231 retired urologist Mon, 17 Nov 2008 18:31:23 +0000 http://drchip.wordpress.com/?p=592#comment-231 @Alan, Thanks for your observations, which are quite accurate, in my experience. As a result of your comment, I inserted an addendum to the post (which see). @Alan,

Thanks for your observations, which are quite accurate, in my experience. As a result of your comment, I inserted an addendum to the post (which see).

]]> By: Alan http://drchip.wordpress.com/2008/11/14/kind-vs-kindly/#comment-230 Alan Mon, 17 Nov 2008 17:36:21 +0000 http://drchip.wordpress.com/?p=592#comment-230 I've read that any physician who can't give some placebo effect benefit to his patients ought to go into pathology. Do you agree? It seems rather self-evident that the most effective primary care physicians, overall, will be the ones who combine traits of empathy with technical skill. An AGI guy can sit a room isolated from actual human beings; a physician usually does not. In our society that tends to feed on delusions of victimization and externalization of blame, arrogance or indifference on the part of a care provider, is a recipe of a correlative/causal mash-up: "Something went wrong; he was a jerk; therefore, it's his fault." Isn't kindliness part of the trade? I’ve read that any physician who can’t give some placebo effect benefit to his patients ought to go into pathology. Do you agree? It seems rather self-evident that the most effective primary care physicians, overall, will be the ones who combine traits of empathy with technical skill. An AGI guy can sit a room isolated from actual human beings; a physician usually does not. In our society that tends to feed on delusions of victimization and externalization of blame, arrogance or indifference on the part of a care provider, is a recipe of a correlative/causal mash-up: “Something went wrong; he was a jerk; therefore, it’s his fault.” Isn’t kindliness part of the trade?

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