Posted by alexandra_k on September 28, 2018, at 16:25:30
In reply to Re: Partlycloudy, posted by alexandra_k on September 28, 2018, at 16:10:48
but then they want people to work in the public health system and talk to people about their obesity and their smoking.
nooo.. they want people to work in the public health system and talk to *other people* about their obesity and their smoking.
they don't want people to work in the private health system talking to their servants about their mental health issues resulting from their servitude. they don't want people to work in the private health system talking to them about their drinking or... about anything that they don't want to hear.
or, maybe the idea is that if you pander to them for long enough then eventually they might be able to take a slight and very very very subtle suggestion that something along the lines of alterations in their behavior might result in better health for them.
honestly. i expect not all that much thought goes into it.
i imagine you got a bunch of people who like to say they are on medical selection to their friends and more importantly their acquaintances. you got people who like to meet with the other selectors (hence the appeal of the move to having more interviewers and doing what we can to introduce algorithms that make things random rather than discriminatory as they were previously). it's a whole social thing of getting together and having a yak about the field and about what it means to be part of the field. it's a whole group cohesion thing for the people who are part of it. so they get to feel part of determining the future of the field.
and you do see the worst of them... the ones who lack the cognitive capacity to see the harms that could be done and to say they don't want to be part of that process because of it.
random...
there's still veto power, though. to say 'definite no' and apparently to say 'definite yes'. or maybe they just say that to make the candidates sweat appropriately?
it feels like something from Camus... The Stranger... you need to show sweat appropriately...
Otherwise you self select out.
Really?
What kind of awful person would do that to another person?
What kind of awful person would want to present a group they are a part of in this way?
I guess the idea is to want to do it despite of them not because of them. To be 100 per cent clear in ones mind that one would do a better job of it than they would.
I guess that's it.
Can always say. Just say, clearly and honestly. I don't really know what this is about or what I'm supposed to say or act like but I really want to do this. If they are going to do a whole upside down and back to front thing then... Well...
Maybe everyone from the elite hall shall tie a ribbon in their hair...
What you gonna do?
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