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WCDT: 2151-55 (26-30 Mar 2012) QC IN SPAAAAAACE... Week TEN!?!
StevenC:
--- Quote from: HiFranc on 01 Apr 2012, 13:09 ---If it was a patient-therapist relationship then it doesn't matter if it was 10 years or 10 days ago:
http://www.cbc.ca/whitecoat/episode/2011/06/30/white-coat-black-art-in-the-summer-boundaries-part-one/
http://www.cbc.ca/whitecoat/blog/2011/07/11/professional-boundaries-part-2/
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That's risky and dumb. Take a hospital doctor who takes care of hundreds of people. Daily. For years. They wouldn't be able to date half the population of their city after some time that way. Not to even think about that they probably won't remember half their former patients.
Or do it the other way around. You're together with someone who becomes a patient to you. It's the same thing in a different order. Are you obliged to break up with them because you put a bandaid on their stubbed toe once?
specter177:
And Station wasn't a psychologist, he was just a friend.
StevenC:
Yes that too. I doubt station has a PhD.
LTK:
I don't. Considering his job, he must have at least several degrees' worth of applied physics knowledge, including rocket science and astronomy. Onboard life support requires him to have a working knowledge of the human body, and the ability to scan down to the molecular level gives him that knowledge first-hand. He's also partially responsible for the well-being on the people on board and needs to know how the human psyche is affected by living on a space station. He owns billions of dollars in stocks, which he wouldn't be entrusted with if he didn't have a firm grasp of economy and corporate affairs. I'd say he has enough knowledge for several human lifetimes.
But apparently he's roughly on the same level as the average space-station-employee when it comes to social affairs, so I'm not sure if you can place him above or below Hannelore in terms of, well, maturity.
Near Lurker:
--- Quote from: StevenC on 01 Apr 2012, 13:54 ---That's risky and dumb. Take a hospital doctor who takes care of hundreds of people. Daily. For years. They wouldn't be able to date half the population of their city after some time that way. Not to even think about that they probably won't remember half their former patients.
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Maybe. But that's far from the situation with Station and Hannelore. Besides, odds are the patients would still remember the doctor.
--- Quote from: StevenC on 01 Apr 2012, 13:54 ---Or do it the other way around. You're together with someone who becomes a patient to you. It's the same thing in a different order. Are you obliged to break up with them because you put a bandaid on their stubbed toe once?
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When this comes up, doctors are allowed and expected to turn the case over if at all reasonable, as when a relative comes. Remember the old riddle? "I can't operate on this boy; he's my son."
I don't see what it matters whether or not his capacity as her therapist was official, or whether he's technically older than she is if he served as her caretaker; the former just means it's not illegal, not that it's not wrong, and the latter is still creepy, since AIs don't go through a childhood. It doesn't matter whether now he's more or less mature than she is, since there was still a time when she was a child and he was "the adult," and in a way, he still is, and that's a fucked-up power dynamic.
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