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Comment by jordache | Hacker News Reader

there are plenty of terrible doctor's out there... Why should we expect doctor's to be any better than the avg population? Same goes for other jobs that we put on a pedestal, like police etc..

should a personality qualifier be required for certain jobs?

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Lots of jobs have personality qualifiers. If you work in a service industry, in a position that involves customer/client interaction, you're going to need some reasonable amount of social skills. The more esteemed your position is, the more your social skill level will matter.

Sure, but I guess the question is, is that a doctor's value? Being good at interacting with people? Is that really the primary thing we want from them?

baseline people skill is necessary. Or necessary training.

It's part of their value, yes. We can expect a doctor to possess more than one skill.

What, is healing pure mechanics now? Like, the doctor is a programmer in a room far away and that's a good doctor?

We shouldn't expect them to be better, but we live in authoritarian society.

The family's complaint isn't about the doctor's personality.

It is if the decision to use the robot in this circumstance was made by the doctor, rather than being standard Kaiser policy.

> Catherine Quintana said she and her mother asked hospital staff about how the robot was used. "It's policy, that's what we do now. That's what we were told," said Catherine Quintana.

Because of the 8~ years of extra training they have to go through?

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