Posted by alexandra_k on December 28, 2005, at 21:40:53
In reply to Re: consent procedures » alexandra_k, posted by pseudoname on December 28, 2005, at 20:35:48
> Oh. Then... is your informed-consent concern (in part) about how consumer sites will end up looking to the assembled pdocs?
No. My concern is how the posters are going to feel during and after being questioned by the assembled p-docs.
And I'm not talking about anxiety...
Or... Maybe p-docs (as a group) are more interested in and respectful of consumers experience than my experience leads me to believe.
I wouldn't have thought they would be terribly interested in a particular posters experience...
I would have though they would be more interested in trying to establish quality of info etc which involves them interpreting the significance of a persons report of their experience.
So there is a distinction between reported experience and veridicality of that / significance of that. And where there is a distinction... The experience can be very invalidating indeed... Especially when it is the first time that people have met. I mean... How many first meetings with p-docs tend to go well? How much do they tend to care about your experience? How much do they tend to undermine your experience because they are thinking more to establish some point or other (mostly to themselves)?
And they aren't going to be in 'I am a p-doc and you are a client' mode. They are going to be in conference mode. But maybe philosophy conferences tend to be more confrontational / argumentative / borderline hostile than psychiatry conferences?
Does this make any sense?
Of course I have no idea really how it will go and I suppose there is only one way to find out.
But I think people should think about it...
And I also think Dr Bob should obtain informed consent. Because... If it does go badly for someone or more than one someone...
Well. It is wise to cover ones *ss.
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