On my homeworld, with specialist consultants (doctors, lawyers etc), we subsidize “open consultation”, which is when a client meets with more than one fully independent consultant at a time. If one consultant misses something, the others will usually catch it, healthy debate will take place, a client will decide who did a better job and contract them or recommend them more often in the future. You do have the concept of “getting a second opinion” here, but I think our version worked a lot better for some subtle reasons.
It produced a whole different atmosphere, like, the water was cleaner. It totally changes the dynamic of the consultations. People tried harder, and they listened more, they had to, and they were happy to, they found it energizing.
As a result of this, we didn’t really have any need for occupational licensing. If someone was making bad recommendations, the other people in the room would just tell the client that lmao.
As part of this increased mobility and independence of specialists, practices end up being a very different kind of business, they weren’t brands or instutitions who owned their consultants, they were just facilities which specialists and clients used. Consultants worked in different offices on different days depending on who they were meeting with.
Drawbacks? Not really, but like, to facilitate the inclusion of younger specialists, we had to make sure an aspirant with good investor assessments could bid to attend open consultations and learn from them and to advertise themselves to clients and get discovered. Occasionally this would result in the presence of a corrupt aspirant who has no real career prospects and was just there to cash in and sell the client some addiction or other on behalf of an advertiser. Usually, though, experienced specialists are able to convince the client to just ask those aspirants to leave pretty quickly. It didn’t happen often and those few clients who’ve experienced this issue came away mostly just amused. Usually, attending aspirants are suitably humble and only speak up when they have something to contribute.
I guess this was coming from our general all-pervading paranoia about cult dynamics, which got pretty extreme sometimes (ie, most kids movies were legally required to end with a section where two or three independent education theorists reflect on the themes, and offer alternative views. The kids always want to skip them! xD), but I definitely preferred our way of doing specialist consultation over the way you do it here :S here I feel like you’re expected to just trust your doctor? And also the fact that you have to use occupational licensing because you don’t have this is part of the reason I think there’s so little innovation, you haven’t created conditions where the better specs can step up and compete and shine and get discovered!
On my homeworld, with specialist consultants (doctors, lawyers etc), we subsidize “open consultation”, which is when a client meets with more than one fully independent consultant at a time.
If one consultant misses something, the others will usually catch it, healthy debate will take place, a client will decide who did a better job and contract them or recommend them more often in the future. You do have the concept of “getting a second opinion” here, but I think our version worked a lot better for some subtle reasons.
It produced a whole different atmosphere, like, the water was cleaner. It totally changes the dynamic of the consultations. People tried harder, and they listened more, they had to, and they were happy to, they found it energizing.
As a result of this, we didn’t really have any need for occupational licensing. If someone was making bad recommendations, the other people in the room would just tell the client that lmao.
As part of this increased mobility and independence of specialists, practices end up being a very different kind of business, they weren’t brands or instutitions who owned their consultants, they were just facilities which specialists and clients used. Consultants worked in different offices on different days depending on who they were meeting with.
Drawbacks? Not really, but like, to facilitate the inclusion of younger specialists, we had to make sure an aspirant with good investor assessments could bid to attend open consultations and learn from them and to advertise themselves to clients and get discovered.
Occasionally this would result in the presence of a corrupt aspirant who has no real career prospects and was just there to cash in and sell the client some addiction or other on behalf of an advertiser. Usually, though, experienced specialists are able to convince the client to just ask those aspirants to leave pretty quickly. It didn’t happen often and those few clients who’ve experienced this issue came away mostly just amused.
Usually, attending aspirants are suitably humble and only speak up when they have something to contribute.
I guess this was coming from our general all-pervading paranoia about cult dynamics, which got pretty extreme sometimes (ie, most kids movies were legally required to end with a section where two or three independent education theorists reflect on the themes, and offer alternative views. The kids always want to skip them! xD), but I definitely preferred our way of doing specialist consultation over the way you do it here :S here I feel like you’re expected to just trust your doctor? And also the fact that you have to use occupational licensing because you don’t have this is part of the reason I think there’s so little innovation, you haven’t created conditions where the better specs can step up and compete and shine and get discovered!