Understandable. It's an unorthodox addition for any hospital. Does your discomfort come down to the design [He'd say it's on the old-fashioned-looking side for a modern robot. Quentin did say he could make a synthetic flesh for it, but there hasn't been time to put in another commission with how much attention the rebuilding has called for.] or something else?
I've found it adept at its programmed tasks, but at times it still asks patients sensitive questions in a very... direct manner. [He's not sure how to fix that, either, other than catching Madame Cur13 at the moment and correcting her there and then. He's done it here and there, and it's been an experience each time.]
unfamiliarity? though the design probably doesn't help it's taken me a while to get used to/be okay with other 'not normal' things so this is just new and it's pretty weird. personally
The purpose behind its commission was to staff the hospital with someone who could never be spontaneously sent away by LIES.
Quentin said he could make a synthetic skin of some sort for it, to make it appear human. I haven't requested a prototype yet, because I can't decide if that would be more, or less uncanny for patients once they found out it was a machine. What do you think?
Ideally, I'd say. We never know whether a patient will be comfortable being seen to by something other than a human. [It's why he's upfront about being a vampire. If someone's prejudiced against him, it'd feel dishonest to surprise them with that information after the fact.]
Yes, but I think we have a duty to be upfront with patients about their care. LIER trust is already hard won in this city, and we don't help that by being disingenuous with people.
being a vampire only affects someone's medical care if you're snacking it doesn't affect how well you'll care for them that's training and knowledge
( and whilst she might have personal fear around aspects of "not normal" things she's never disliked someone just for the fact that they're a vampire or have magic
adrienne does know the world doesn't work how she thinks, especially when it's a conversation that tinges close to racism or prejudice in a different aspect. though this felt more personal in some ways )
maybe not but if they refuse because you're a vampire or that there's a machine that also goes against trying to help them when the reason they're refusing isn't skill based so why do they need to know?
Practically-speaking, no, there isn't a need for patients to be aware Marie is a machine, or I'm a vampire, if it gets in the way of their care. If a patient comes into the hospital and needs immediate care, I'm not going to take the time to introduce myself as a vampire before attending to them.
Wholistically-speaking, when we're able, if we want to create a relationship with a patient and gain their trust so they'll continue coming back, we can't do that by lying to them about whom, or what we are.
That doesn't mean I think we need to give patients every detail about our lives, but where it includes something people might be afraid of, or have no experience with? That could create issues if those facts are discovered, or personally revealed, later? There's little harm in being upfront about things like that where, and when, we can.
i'm not sure i'm going to agree with you but i also probably would have been afraid of you being my doctor when i first got here not 100% but something
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mattersofscience) wrote2016-05-31 10:57 pm
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never had a robot around before
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I've found it adept at its programmed tasks, but at times it still asks patients sensitive questions in a very... direct manner. [He's not sure how to fix that, either, other than catching Madame Cur13 at the moment and correcting her there and then. He's done it here and there, and it's been an experience each time.]
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though the design probably doesn't help
it's taken me a while to get used to/be okay with other 'not normal' things
so this is just new
and it's pretty weird. personally
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Fair enough.
The purpose behind its commission was to staff the hospital with someone who could never be spontaneously sent away by LIES.
Quentin said he could make a synthetic skin of some sort for it, to make it appear human. I haven't requested a prototype yet, because I can't decide if that would be more, or less uncanny for patients once they found out it was a machine. What do you think?
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especially when it's not visible
and you probably end up meeting more not human people than you think
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What's the reasoning for hiding Marie's identity?
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it doesn't affect how well you'll care for them
that's training and knowledge
( and whilst she might have personal fear around aspects of "not normal" things she's never disliked someone just for the fact that they're a vampire or have magic
adrienne does know the world doesn't work how she thinks, especially when it's a conversation that tinges close to racism or prejudice in a different aspect. though this felt more personal in some ways )
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You're correct. But I see no reason to hide what I am, either.
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but if they refuse because you're a vampire or that there's a machine
that also goes against trying to help them
when the reason they're refusing isn't skill based
so why do they need to know?
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Wholistically-speaking, when we're able, if we want to create a relationship with a patient and gain their trust so they'll continue coming back, we can't do that by lying to them about whom, or what we are.
That doesn't mean I think we need to give patients every detail about our lives, but where it includes something people might be afraid of, or have no experience with? That could create issues if those facts are discovered, or personally revealed, later? There's little harm in being upfront about things like that where, and when, we can.
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but i also probably would have been afraid of you being my doctor when i first got here
not 100% but something
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If you think it's for the better not to tell patients about myself or Marie, I respect that, and won't hold it against you if you don't.
Our lives would be easier if they were, but people aren't a science. All we can do with them, or for them, is what we think is best.