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sand85
Posted 4/18/2024 18:51 (#10711871 - in reply to #10711844)
Subject: RE: A bizarre PA story


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I think technology is slowly going to continue to lead to these boundary issues in professional practice, where technology makes it so easy to perform once-difficult tasks that some private enterprise is going to try to change what once were considered clear boundaries.

For example, land surveying.  Most any fool can look up the deed or old plat of survey, type the coordinates into a $5k or less survey grade GPS, and drive a pin.  What makes that magically difficult and the purview of licensed land surveyors?  Same for basic engineering concepts embedded into CAD software systems and legal documents dumped out by algorithm-based websites.  Technology simplifies and encroaches on areas once considered the domain only of the educated, experienced, skilled, and licensed professionals.  And you can make an argument for a long time that you don’t know what you don’t know and the experience from practice is what makes licensure important, and a code of ethics not to engage beyond your area of expertise.  But so often this purported expertise is really not probably factual (although either you are pregnant or you aren’t) but merely experience with accepted simplifications or methods or assumptions that may or may not be logical, common-sensical, or up to date with the latest science, or in keeping with current public opinion which, I surprisingly find, it part of the whole professional practice - changing rules and codes to keep up with current social changes.

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