Re:When Do We Have Empathy for the Mentally Ill?
by romwell on Monday September 24, 2018 @11:00PM
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OK, I think I see your point. Maybe we can train the professionals to act out of reasons other than empathy? Or be more attuned to the current state and not the history. (Don't know if that is possible, or what specifically needs to be done).
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Re:When Do We Have Empathy for the Mentally Ill?
by 9wzYQbTYsAIc on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @04:32AM
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The real issues at hand with this research are 1) prescribing medicine too often and 2) interacting with patients too little.
If you take a look at the original research (linked to from the posted article), then you can skip to the discussion section to see the authors wording of what you are taking about. They are saying the same thing as you, essentially, in a more specific and sophisticated way (page 4 of 5)
Re:When Do We Have Empathy for the Mentally Ill?
by westoncb on Monday September 24, 2018 @11:26PM
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> Or be more attuned to the current state
That's a good suggestion I hadn't thought of. Really not sure aside from that—I've got some vague ideas about certain 'empathy trainings' that could be done, but I'd be concerned about throwing a random factor into how the rest of their work is done...
Re:When Do We Have Empathy for the Mentally Ill?
by 9wzYQbTYsAIc on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @02:06AM
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This topic encompasses one of the proposed advantages of using machine learning in medicine - data driven and unbiased diagnostics.