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Originally Posted by atisketatasket
As for your question, oncologists can get cancer and even die of it, but that doesn't keep them from helping patients with cancer. There's theory and knowledge and then there's failure to do what you know you should do. There are marriage counselors out there with failed marriages. Doesn't mean they're not helpful to the couples they see.
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If a therapist has some deeply rooted relationship sickness, they cannot just put that aside and do the right thing, when what they are selling is a relationship. Also establishing a thearpist's fitness for helping others is very difficult, as it's dependent on vague and abstract concepts like attachment status or mental health status, and is hampered by their evasiveness.
An oncologist with cancer could be a huge liability, or could simply be too sick to work. But at least these things can be defined and evaluated with some precision.