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Top amputation surgeon had own legs removed due to fetish. Were patients safe?
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Re: Top amputation surgeon had own legs removed due to fetish. Were patients safe?
#22There is probably some correlation between one's profession and fetishes. We already know some programming languages attract certain types of personalities/attitudes so why would that be different elsewhere?
There’s also a known correlation between firefighters and arsonists
Yesterday on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49130853>
Re: Top amputation surgeon had own legs removed due to fetish. Were patients safe?
#23There is probably some correlation between one's profession and fetishes. We already know some programming languages attract certain types of personalities/attitudes so why would that be different elsewhere?
" We already know some programming languages attract certain types of personalities/attitudes"
What evidence do you have to back that up? I think you're trying to pull facts out of your a* to rationalize something.
Re: Top amputation surgeon had own legs removed due to fetish. Were patients safe?
#24Generalised: principle-agent problem: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Principal%E2%80%93agent_proble...>.
Particularly where the agent has specialised knowledge and/or privileged access.
Not uncommonly an issue in IT.
A growing concern with AI, to boot: Alignment.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_alignment>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Alignment_Problem>
Re: Top amputation surgeon had own legs removed due to fetish. Were patients safe?
#25Where is the line between fetish and mental illness??? Why is it that if someone wants to cut off their own healthy limbs, we are calling this a fetish rather than saying what it is, a mental illness. No rationale human being would want this done. And before people state that there are many fetishes and that people have the right to have them, if any of you had a friend that wanted this done, you would take them to a…
Probably because they’re not
mutually exclusive and one more accurately reflects the component of arousal.
Re: Top amputation surgeon had own legs removed due to fetish. Were patients safe?
#26Where is the line between fetish and mental illness??? Why is it that if someone wants to cut off their own healthy limbs, we are calling this a fetish rather than saying what it is, a mental illness. No rationale human being would want this done. And before people state that there are many fetishes and that people have the right to have them, if any of you had a friend that wanted this done, you would take them to a…
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Re: Top amputation surgeon had own legs removed due to fetish. Were patients safe?
#27Where is the line between fetish and mental illness??? Why is it that if someone wants to cut off their own healthy limbs, we are calling this a fetish rather than saying what it is, a mental illness. No rationale human being would want this done. And before people state that there are many fetishes and that people have the right to have them, if any of you had a friend that wanted this done, you would take them to a…
There's the component of suffering for sure, but I think being a functional member of society is the most important. So if you don't annoy anyone with your abnormalities you are more likely to be considered sane.
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#28Why do I care if someone wants to amputate their own legs? The only issue here is the insurance fraud, if that happened.
Because there's at least a possibility that the surgeon recommended and performed amputations in order to satisfy his own fetishes rather than to do what's best for his patients. As a doctor, he is supposed to do what is best for the patient, not himself.
If it is verified that he has performed medically unwarranted amputations, that'd probably result in some kind of criminal charge due to the grave and permanent bodily harm involved. The loss of his medical license would be the least of his problems.
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#29The 4chan toaster meme remains undefeated. https://knowyourmeme.com/photos/1695828-that-is-my-fetish
> fuck up your and countless other people's lives
FTFY.
Re: Top amputation surgeon had own legs removed due to fetish. Were patients safe?
#30Why do I care if someone wants to amputate their own legs? The only issue here is the insurance fraud, if that happened.
Because there's at least a possibility that the surgeon recommended and performed amputations in order to satisfy his own fetishes rather than to do what's best for his patients. As a doctor, he is supposed to do what is best for the patient, not himself. If it is verified that he has performed medically unwarranted amputations, that'd probably result in some kind of criminal charge due to the grave and permanent bod…
This would end up classified under “patient abuse or neglect”, which has an ejection rate of around 200 doctors per year in the U.S.: https://plaindiscipline.com/action-type/conviction-patient-a...