Re:Show HN: Shimmer – ADHD coaching for adults, now on web
by beaker52 on Friday August 25, 2023 @03:40AM
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I understand where people’s complaints on this topic are coming from on this one.
Leveraging anyone’s association with the medical profession, whilst NOT rendering a medical service is the rub here. The service is trying to associate itself with the (protected) reputation of practitioners of (protected) services that it explicitly tries to distance itself from (because of the very reason: they’re protected) to save its own ass, whilst still trying to benefit from the association.
If you are not providing medical services for ADHD (especially when ADHD is something for which medical services are often provided), then the medical credentials of your staff should be completely off-limits and irrelevant. Otherwise you’re saying “we aren’t providing medical services for legal reasons but all of our staff are highly-qualified medical professionals, wink wink lol”.
In my opinion, as a prospective customer, you should either make it a medical service, or drop any attempt at associations with the medical profession, otherwise it’s going to look like this, and it’s not a very trustworthy look.
Leveraging anyone’s association with the medical profession, whilst NOT rendering a medical service is the rub here. The service is trying to associate itself with the (protected) reputation of practitioners of (protected) services that it explicitly tries to distance itself from (because of the very reason: they’re protected) to save its own ass, whilst still trying to benefit from the association.
If you are not providing medical services for ADHD (especially when ADHD is something for which medical services are often provided), then the medical credentials of your staff should be completely off-limits and irrelevant. Otherwise you’re saying “we aren’t providing medical services for legal reasons but all of our staff are highly-qualified medical professionals, wink wink lol”.
In my opinion, as a prospective customer, you should either make it a medical service, or drop any attempt at associations with the medical profession, otherwise it’s going to look like this, and it’s not a very trustworthy look.