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-   The Maple Leaf (https://britishexpats.com/forum/maple-leaf-98/)
-   -   psychopath night (https://britishexpats.com/forum/maple-leaf-98/psychopath-night-817896/)

ExKiwilass Dec 16th 2013 8:58 am
Re: psychopath night
 
Originally Posted by bats (Post 11040263)
True enough. nteresting that it put suregons at no 5 occupation for psychopaths, i've met many with a god complex. You might need that arrogance and lack of empathy to do what they do, sometimes!

The programme is one of a series i think.
I wonder. The CBC did a show recently on medical mistakes, and how difficult it is to hold doctors and surgeons accountable for their bad decisions, even if they lead to death or permanent impairment. Personally if someone is fiddling around with my insides I'd prefer them to have some emapthy.

Oink Dec 16th 2013 9:03 am
Re: psychopath night
 
Originally Posted by ExKiwilass (Post 11040273)
I wonder. The CBC did a show recently on medical mistakes, and how difficult it is to hold doctors and surgeons accountable for their bad decisions, even if they lead to death or permanent impairment. Personally if someone is fiddling around with my insides I'd prefer them to have some emapthy.
Giggity.

Shard Dec 16th 2013 9:07 am
Re: psychopath night
 
Originally Posted by bats (Post 11040263)
True enough. nteresting that it put suregons at no 5 occupation for psychopaths, i've met many with a god complex. You might need that arrogance and lack of empathy to do what they do, sometimes!

The programme is one of a series i think.
Yes, there are situations where the focus and self-assurance are beneficial. The Alex Baldwin scene was very good (I haven't seen Malice before).

Shard Dec 16th 2013 9:08 am
Re: psychopath night
 
Originally Posted by ExKiwilass (Post 11040273)
I wonder. The CBC did a show recently on medical mistakes, and how difficult it is to hold doctors and surgeons accountable for their bad decisions, even if they lead to death or permanent impairment. Personally if someone is fiddling around with my insides I'd prefer them to have some emapthy.
Wouldn't you just want them to be an excellent plumber?

bats Dec 16th 2013 9:12 am
Re: psychopath night
 
Originally Posted by ExKiwilass (Post 11040273)
I wonder. The CBC did a show recently on medical mistakes, and how difficult it is to hold doctors and surgeons accountable for their bad decisions, even if they lead to death or permanent impairment. Personally if someone is fiddling around with my insides I'd prefer them to have some emapthy.
A hospital joke is that surgeons become surgeons as they prefer their patients to be asleep so no bedside manner is needed.

ExKiwilass Dec 16th 2013 9:13 am
Re: psychopath night
 
Originally Posted by Shard (Post 11040286)
Wouldn't you just want them to be an excellent plumber?
you need to hear some of the horror stories.

Shard Dec 16th 2013 9:17 am
Re: psychopath night
 
Originally Posted by ExKiwilass (Post 11040297)
you need to hear some of the horror stories.
Actually, I don't! :D

ExKiwilass Dec 16th 2013 9:43 am
Re: psychopath night
 
Originally Posted by Shard (Post 11040304)
Actually, I don't! :D
true!!

Almost Canadian Dec 16th 2013 10:31 am
Re: psychopath night
 
Originally Posted by bats (Post 11040112)
You talk as if it's a bad thing. What the programme was saying, among other things, was that there are certain characteristics that would place someone on the high end of the psychopathy spectrum. This doesn't make them evil, but if they do turn bad they are very good at it. Psychopaths are also pretty good at being heroes too, the person most likely to save you from a burning building etc.

One of the examples they gave was asking people what they would do if they were alone with a new born baby. That baby would grow up to be Hitler. You have a cushion, noone would know, would you kill the baby? Those who scored high said yes they would
I don't believe I made any comment about whether it was good or bad; simply that, from my limited knowledge, I couldn't think of anyone on the Canada forum that may qualify.

Novocastrian Dec 16th 2013 10:34 am
Re: psychopath night
 
Originally Posted by Almost Canadian (Post 11040408)
I don't believe I made any comment about whether it was good or bad; simply that, from my limited knowledge, I couldn't think of anyone on the Canada forum that may qualify.
That's a bit passive-aggressive, don't you think?

bats Dec 16th 2013 10:51 am
Re: psychopath night
 
Originally Posted by Almost Canadian (Post 11040408)
I don't believe I made any comment about whether it was good or bad; simply that, from my limited knowledge, I couldn't think of anyone on the Canada forum that may qualify.
Well there you go. Super.

caretaker Dec 17th 2013 1:29 am
Re: psychopath night
 
Originally Posted by bats (Post 11040294)
A hospital joke is that surgeons become surgeons as they prefer their patients to be asleep so no bedside manner is needed.
On the psych ward we used to say a psychiatrist is just an MD who can't stand the sight of blood.

caretaker Dec 17th 2013 1:43 am
Re: psychopath night
 
Originally Posted by Novocastrian (Post 11038730)
Academic dude? Shirley you don't think that crap was serious research?
The first real inservice I got in psych was for working with psychopaths, I spent a lot of time doing intensive care with them, and I can spot the probables here from your posts without too much trouble.:) Of course it's just a weak parlour trick, meant for entertainment. If you don't put much weight behind the diagnostic benefit of the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) the quiz is based on, (and I don't), this quiz is just a smaller dose of the same BS. When I applied to join the army reserves I wanted to get into the artillery because my friends were there, and I had to take a multiple choice test, loosely similar to these. One problem had a picture of three identical howitzers, and I had to circle the odd one. I looked and looked but they were all the same. I thought, 'If I pick the one on the left, they may think I'm a Communist. If I pick the one in the middle, they may think I'm undecided.' I chose the one on the right thinking it might show a hint of political conservatism, and that's probably what they are looking for, and was accepted for training immediately. Not too unlike Arlo Guthrie at the draft board in Alice's Restaurant. And stop calling me Shirley.

dbd33 Dec 17th 2013 1:46 am
Re: psychopath night
 
Originally Posted by bats (Post 11040294)
A hospital joke is that surgeons become surgeons as they prefer their patients to be asleep so no bedside manner is needed.
"I hate people. My favourite patient is an orphan in a coma."

Souvy Dec 17th 2013 3:04 am
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A miserable 36%. I was lying, though. I don't really care if my score skews the data. These people are irrelevant.


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