I would be interested.

I had a theory about 7 years ago, now soundly disproven, that anthropomorphic models might be an advantage, as people know that people lie all the time and we've developed intuition over millennia to smell the BS, while we assume machines are infallible and reliable. But no!!! I was sadly wrong.

My kingdom for an edit button.

So true. At least this time it’s being said out loud. Accepting radically compromised research is so normalised by now.

Looks great! I was introduced to Tanka last year and fell a bit in love. Can't make either of these session but will keep my eyes open for the future.

Yes. I have seen some really amazing small cohort magic in the past year. Mulling how it could be developed.

Phew. Always great to see things connect and make sense outside the confines of my skull!

Apologies for shorthand to collapse complex dynamics, which may become blindingly obvious once I do that ;-) As you say, the antidote is simple, but probably requires re-imagining who medical professionals are, as individuals in community, from within as well as externally to break the cycle.

Paradox: stepping into relationship has potential to heal the healer and provide new pact. But in survival mode, chronically unsafe, and told tech will make you irrelevant, the tendency is to detach to protect. So yes, power needs to shift, but HCPs need a way to internalise what they are gaining.

We appear to have a reached a limit of the current model of individualised, atomised, transactional care to heal what’s making us chronically unwell. But if the fixers can’t fix things, the saviours aren’t saving, what is their role? Why do they exist? Where does their value come from.

Modern western medicine was grounded in pact where clinicians swallow and hold all the things we don’t want to see, in return for status, autonomy, and respect and satisfaction of saving. That pact has broken, driven by a number of factors, but pandemic brought into sharp relief via abandonment.

HCPs/patients/systems appear locked in a negatively reinforcing drama triangle and unable to step into a mature adult relationship with the active listening and caring you describe. I think there is a big internal block to that shift because of being in a state of existential crises.

For example, I find it super interesting in the UK that we implement personalised care by adding new layers of people it gets delegated to or conduct community engagement via proxies of communities and systems rather than direct dialogue. Parallel dynamic in US via insurance.