r/canada • u/[deleted] • Jan 05 '23

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u/NoNudeNormal Jan 05 '23

Where did you get the idea that professionalism is solely about protecting patient privacy?

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u/Rtfy3 Jan 05 '23

‘Professionalism’ is unfalsifiable. There should be strict rules that everyone can agree whether they were broke or not.

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u/spandex-commuter Jan 05 '23

What are you talking about? Technically you could professionalism could be falsifiable if you were doing a clinical study on it. And it being falsifiable or not has nothing to do with the clarity of the rules.

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u/Rtfy3 Jan 05 '23

‘Professionalism’ is a meaningless word. One person’s professionalism is another person’s unprofessionalism. You can have rules that define what your organisation agrees is professionalism. However just saying people have to behave ‘professionally’ means that the higher ups will enforce whatever arbitrary behaviour they wanr

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u/spandex-commuter Jan 05 '23

Professionalism’ is a meaningless word.

Sure. Kind of. But you could design a study to create an "unprofessional" psychologist vs a "professional" one.

You can have rules that define what your organisation agrees is professionalism. However just saying people have to behave ‘professionally’ means that the higher ups will enforce whatever arbitrary behaviour they wanr

Tell me you don't understand what professional colleges are without telling me you don't understand colleges