Posted by Lou Pilder on September 25, 2014, at 6:29:54
In reply to Re: Lou's response- The Hsi-Pil discussion -trnzehytmp, posted by bryte on September 9, 2014, at 0:28:41
> > But do you see the grammatical structure of the statement here by Mr. Hsuing to at least be taken as I see it by average readers, or do you see something else that I do not see?
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> >And also, do you see that what Mr. Hsiung posted here could be considered by a subset or readers to be a transparent attempt to justify leaving anti-Semitism and defamation against me to be seen as civil, supportive, and will be good for this community as a whole where no justification
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> > Lou
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> There is a rational basis for a subset of readers to conclude misinformed consent enforces acceptance of some flawed assumptions that:
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> 1. No results are promised
> 2. If there are results, the results will be beneficial for a "group"
> 3. If one person suffers harm by way of embarrassment or otherwise, a greater number of persons will benefit.
> 4. Even if no individual benefits, the "group" may benefit.
> 4. A host's good intentions are sufficient to mitigate whatever harm any one person or group of persons suffers from activities claimed to benefit an amorphous stream of visitors classified as a group.
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> Those assumptions do not fulfill the promises of the Hippocratic Oath. The oath addresses patients in the plural and in the singular. In no case does the oath address a physician's obligation to a group. It says a physician will prescribe regimens for the benefit of patients, but will not harm any one.
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> The oath does not say a physician will prescribe regimes that benefit some patients at the expense of others.
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> The oath does not say "I swear to do no harm... except when I am not involved in a doctor-patient relationship, at which time I may do things that are harmful to some but in my judgement may benefit others."
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> It says "In every house where I come I will enter only for the good of my patients." Every house. Whether wearing the stethoscope or the golf cleats. Whether entering as a practitioner or as a scholar. Whether as a private business owner hosting a milieu online at no cost to invitees or as a caregiver for an academic institution providing a confidential milieu under contractual employment obligations.
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> In no phrase of the Hippocratic Oath nor in standards of care expected of healthcare professionals -- on the job or otherwise -- are found expectations or justifications for a caregiver to provide non-emergency care for some knowing that others may suffer harm. When two alternatives exist, one which may harm some but theoretically benefit others, and the other alternative may do no harm and may benefit others, the least harmful option would always be better.
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> A physician may no more single out one person to endure greater harm for the good of a group than a physician may ethically administer lethal drugs under license of a court order. As Lou is wont to remind us, governments have at times licensed physicians to commit the most egregious harm, but that license does not make it ethical - nor lawful under international law.
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> Especially when a doctor invites visitors to a group in part for the purpose of informing case studies that fulfill a significant portion of his professional imperative to publish or perish a doctor must avoid situations that systematically embarrass, frustrate or disadvantage some invitees.
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> A subset of readers could consider it misguided for a physician to choose whom will enjoy protection of administrative interventions among a stream of visitors, and claim the administrator's privately held reason justifies overtly protecting some by publicly embarrassing those who may offend them while denying protection to others.
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> A less harmful means exists to reach the same end. Offending content can be removed. It is the practice used by the vast majority of service providers managing interaction among hundreds of millions of social media users.
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> An assertion that the better approach is to embarrass some members, some times, for the benefit of other visitors at other times requires evidence. That evidence is not found in the continuing disquiet and discomfort expressed among guests of this social network.
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> Physicians do not ethically expose one person to harm for the benefit others - certainly not in a non-emergency setting the physician created in part to provide cases for study. In triage situations, physicians may select some patients to receive care while others do not, but ethical doctors do not otherwise invite patients to join groups where some will ostensibly benefit by witnessing embarrassment of others.
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> Ethical physicians in no case create groups where avoidable harms are imposed when alternatives exist, then claim it might be best for some members to let the harm continue.
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Bryte,
I appreciate your statements here that show that harm could be an outcome from Mr. Hsiung selecting which statements he will sanction and that you do see it. But it is much more than that.
You may already know that Mr. Hsiung has stated that he will act on notifications except that he will give himself the option of leaving my notifications outstanding. It is his thinking that what he does will be good for this community as a whole, and that readers are to try to *trust* him at that.
My question here is if you can see that by asking readers to trust him when he leaves harmful anti-Semitic and defamatory statements against me here to be seen as civil where they are originally posted, and by him using what a subset of readers could think to be using evasion and discrimination,in your opinion could constitute malicious actions to promote hatred toward the Jews and hostility toward me.
Let us look at this post:
Lou
http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/admin/20130702/msgs/1049210.html
poster:Lou Pilder
thread:1050116
URL: http://www.dr-bob.org/babble/admin/20140902/msgs/1071487.html