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Whenever medical advice is being thrown around by anonymous handles, it helps to ask one simple question to clear the air: “Are you a doctor?”
by bargainbot3k 2y ago
Whenever medical advice is being thrown around by anonymous handles, it helps to ask one simple question to clear the air: “Are you a doctor?”
- magical_spell 2y agoPerhaps that's not the question you should ask. You might want to ask "what is your advice based on?" instead. If you do so, you evaluate the conclusion by focusing on the quality of the argument, not features of the argumentator. You would agree, I suppose, that good medical advice could be given by non-doctors, and bad medical advice by doctors.
- bargainbot3k 2y agoThat would be a follow up question if the answer to the first question is “yes.”
- hooverd 2y agoIf it's an MD you can substitute "take an ibuprofen and see if it goes away", otherwise proceed.