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    Expert opinion about therapies faces problems beyond pure... — Carmelics
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    Expert opinion about therapies faces problems beyond purely epistemic misjudgment

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    • 1.Medical experts and patients are in a principal-agent relationship in which the agent's interests may diverge from the principal's
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    • 2.Agents have incentives to cheat by not exerting the effort needed to select and deliver the optimal therapy
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    • 1.The principal-agent framework presupposes adversarial self-interest, but medical professionalism constitutes a distinct moral psychology that cannot be reduced to economic agency.
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    • 2.Virtue ethics traditions from Aristotle through Pellegrino ground clinical judgment in cultivated phronesis, making epistemic and motivational failures analytically inseparable, not distinct problem types.
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    • 1.Habermas's theory of communicative action holds that expert-patient discourse, when undistorted, operates under norms of validity that structurally resist strategic self-interest.
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    • 2.If non-epistemic distortions are reducible to communicative pathologies, they are still epistemic failures at the level of the institution, collapsing the claim's proposed distinction.
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    Misjudgments concerning the efficacy of therapies for purely epistemic reasons are not the only worry that one might have about expert opinion. Medical experts and patients are in what economists call a principal-agent relationship. The principal—in this case, the patient—desires the delivery of a certain good or service—in this case, his health. He instructs an agent—in this case, the doctor—with it, because he lacks the expertise to produce the good himself. The good can only be produced with
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