Interesting Links for 13-09-2023
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andrewducker- 1. Loughborough University student's device detects sport concussions in 10 seconds
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- 2. Inside Russia's undercover crackdown on gay men in Chechnya
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- 3. One in three female surgeons have been sexually assaulted at work in the last five years.
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- 4. Note: attempting to get rid of sunken explosives by dropping explosives on them, while moored directly above, is not a good idea
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- 5. Everyone in America is getting a Covid booster (unlike the UK, where it's only the very old)
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Re: #3
Date: 2023-09-14 08:08 am (UTC)I'm going to note wrt. surgeons and sexual assault that (a) there's reputedly a higher than normal rate of psychopathy among surgical specialities -- having low empathy can be an asset when your job involves cutting people up -- and (b) surgery is an artisanal specialty: surgeons take years to train, are minimally interchangeable, and skill/experience makes a profound difference to outcomes.
So (b) means there's intense pressure on management to put up with asshole rock stars, and (a) means you're more likely to get predatory/assholish behavior.
(Finally, there's the subsequent reporting that most medical students get zero training on sexual harassment in the workplace and how to deal with it. Which doesn't just affect surgeons, but almost all medical staff.)
Re: #3
Date: 2023-09-14 08:08 pm (UTC)And also possible that there are lower levels of empathy because shitty behaviour by some has driven out anyone with a shred of humanity left in them.
Re: #3
Date: 2023-09-15 06:30 am (UTC)The systematic use of sleep deprivation and acute stress is central to the process of training (and selecting by elimination) junior doctors in teaching hospitals.
It's remarkably effective in eliminating empathy.
We observe this in other professions - law, banking, and the larger accountancy firms - where 'the last man standing' from the graduate intake acquires a grisly collection of adaptive psychoses and a distinctive management style which generates profits (and further career advancement) by burning people out.
Re: #3
Date: 2023-09-16 08:56 am (UTC)That's another good point.
(I'm going to say nothing about how front-line military service generate stress and induce severe sleep deprivation: the implications should be obvious.)