Saying that most doctors would want to force any treatment in general is an extraordinary claim.
I haven’t used the word force.
What do I believe the doctors do? I know a doctor who works at a hospital where she has the target of increasing the number of procedures that the hospital can bill by 10% every year.
There are people out there who believe it’s ethical to change organ donation from optin to optout. There’s broad research about how to get people to do what you want to do by using tricks like that. I do believe that oncologists frequently use related stategies to increase complience rates and have more patient undergo treatment.
Afterwards the hospital director reaches his goal of his 10% increase. If you don’t think that doctors have power over changing patients choices, the 10% goal wouldn’t make sense.
I want to point out that none of the above implies that the doctor doesn’t believe that the cancer treatment is good for the patient.
I don’t think you should put words in Lumifer’s mouth. He can clarify his position himself if he wishes to.
Given that he’s politically a libertarian who values personal autonomy I have a high confidence that he doesn’t support the war on drugs. I think a libertarian you don’t allow for human diversity position but want to medicate it away position just doesn’t mesh with advocating to ban further drugs from people who want to have them.
I do consider it useful to think of positions in a way where you are allowed to analyse them and make claims about them..
The post I wrote is not about making right/wrong judgements. I wanted to say that using techniques like that is a form of using power to change the “choices” another person makes.
I don’t think that doctors use actually force to get a patient to agree to a cancer operation but I do think that a fair portion uses choice engineering techniques to get the patient to do what they consider to be good for the patient.
I haven’t used the word force.
What do I believe the doctors do? I know a doctor who works at a hospital where she has the target of increasing the number of procedures that the hospital can bill by 10% every year.
There are people out there who believe it’s ethical to change organ donation from optin to optout. There’s broad research about how to get people to do what you want to do by using tricks like that. I do believe that oncologists frequently use related stategies to increase complience rates and have more patient undergo treatment.
Afterwards the hospital director reaches his goal of his 10% increase. If you don’t think that doctors have power over changing patients choices, the 10% goal wouldn’t make sense.
I want to point out that none of the above implies that the doctor doesn’t believe that the cancer treatment is good for the patient.
Given that he’s politically a libertarian who values personal autonomy I have a high confidence that he doesn’t support the war on drugs. I think a libertarian you don’t allow for human diversity position but want to medicate it away position just doesn’t mesh with advocating to ban further drugs from people who want to have them.
I do consider it useful to think of positions in a way where you are allowed to analyse them and make claims about them..
And you think they’re wrong? Why?
The post I wrote is not about making right/wrong judgements. I wanted to say that using techniques like that is a form of using power to change the “choices” another person makes.
I don’t think that doctors use actually force to get a patient to agree to a cancer operation but I do think that a fair portion uses choice engineering techniques to get the patient to do what they consider to be good for the patient.
The point of this conversation is lost on me. I’m out.
Peace.