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Medicine spinoff?
One of today's Ask posts--and the recent no-username-at-meetups discussion here!!--prompted me to ask: Are any of the various medical students, physicians, etc. interested in forming a Google group or similar? [more inside]
MedicalFilter
This post is based on is sensationalised and scaremongering reporting and should be deleted. And then the ground should be salted so that no other post like it can ever grow again. [more inside]
If it's not answering the question, can it be deleted?
I know asking medical questions here is controversial. I don't expect to resolve that all here. But I do think there's a consistently problematic answer found in medical threads that has no answer-value and I wish this kind of answer would be deleted as such. [more inside]
Askme comment: answers your doctors need to decipher mystery symptoms
Looking for an AskMetafilter comment that listed recommended questions the OP should think about for an upcoming doctor's appointment. [more inside]
Vague medical AskMe questions
This question seems like a really bad idea, heading into territory where AskMe advice may be worse than no advice at all. [more inside]
How many hits of this acid should I eat?
Travel Medical Tech Support Filter
have pros and cons ever been discussed for separating AskMe's into segregated categories for
(
"what do you recommend I do during my three months in X / can anyone recommend a good shoe repairmen in X" ;
"radioactive Y on my eyeball when I woke up-- should I see a doctor?" ; and
"need help with Z computer-ish code-ism/softwareness"
)? [more inside]
Not everybody lives in Canada.
"If it's bothering you, go see a doctor." This isn't helpful in many cases; can we stop saying it? [more inside]
I am a commenter, but not your commenter
Please, for the love of all that is holy, can we please stop?
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Ministry of Mis-Information
Could people please stop giving medical advice with no basis in science in this thread? [more inside]
AskMe screws the pooch
Lots of medical advice
Why Medical Questions?
Last week, SpecialK wondered aloud on MeTa, "Why do people keep asking medical questions on AskMe?". Here's a Pew Research report that talks about how and why people look for health information online. Also see Eszter Hargittai's Crooked Timber post on this study and another, along with her other posts and writings. (I posted here because it's too narrow-interest for MeFi and is in reponse to an AskMe etiquette question. Also, it's not bitching or a callout.)
the reply is ALWAYS going to be "See a doctor"
Why do people keep asking medical questions on AskMe when the reply is ALWAYS going to be "See a doctor?" Should we have a message like they have on doctors phone lines that says, "If you think you have a medical problem, don't ask us, GO SEE A DOCTOR." in the AxMe posting page?
As a broader question, is community decision making and the internet replacing common sense?
As a broader question, is community decision making and the internet replacing common sense?
askme medical questions
Criminy! We need a way to flag askMe posts as: Go to a doctor, goofball!
Policy against legal, medical, and tax advice?
Requests for very specific legal, medical, and tax advice make me nervous. There should be some policy against these, or at least a very bold warning strongly discouraging and expressly disclaiming liability against responses in these threads.
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