the ultimate medical experinece is death!
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From: [log in to unmask] on behalf of Phil Dunlap
Sent: 04 July 1998 22:14
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Subject: Re: Counselling is catching!
Trefor Roscoe wrote:
>
> Surely the best experience for helping with loss is a personal experience.
> One could argue (and I would not be minded to) that only people who have
> experienced the trauma and the therapy can help another in the same
> distress. Don't psychotherapists have to undergo psychotherapy before they
> can practice?
>
Indeed.
This might also be extended to the more physical aspects of medicine.
Think how much more empathetic and caring a physician about to subject a
patient to a procedure if the physician had actually him (or her) self
undergone the same procedure.
Of course, were this to become a requirement (a la psychiatry) there
would probably be a sharp decline in the number of physicians willing to
perform orchiectomies, vasectomies, colonoscopies, liver biopsies, etc.
Actually, this might constitute a whole new approach to rationing...er,
I meant to say, the attempt to prioritize the allocation of scarce
surgical resources. Wouldn't help the waiting lists for orchiectomies
much though, I fear.
Phil Dunlap, D.O., Ph.D.
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Natick, MA, 01760, USA
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