(04-01-2025, 11:28 AM)Sneakers Wrote:

(03-31-2025, 12:40 PM)mikesez Wrote: "90% of my patient load are liberals"
That's what he said.  How can he know that without discussing politics with his patients? You're saying he might have gotten that data from someone else's poll. No.  Those wouldn't be his patients.  They would be patients of any number of other therapists. 
Back to my statement, he is either unethical, or lying. The good news is, like most stuff that goes viral on social media, this is just something someone made up. It's a lie.  He's lying.

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There is a simple and obvious possibility.  He may give each new patient a questionnaire in the introductory session, telling them to answer as much or as little as they wish.  The information could be used to help guide his therapy with each patient, or for statistical research only, without any patient identification.