Re: How would you do a sleep apnea detector?

From: Luhan Monat (x_at_y.z)
Date: 02/26/05 

Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2005 21:49:49 -0800

Guy Macon wrote:
> Luhan Monat wrote:
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>>Interesting point. However, this is not a medical venue. No one should
>>expect expertise in medicine here, only, hopefully, good advice on
>>engineering and such.
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>>As far as the legality goes, anyone *but* a doctor can freely give
>>medical advice without liability as long as they don't represent
>>themselves as a licenced medical pratictioner.
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>>The same goes for any professional field, doctors can give legal advice,
>>florists can give realestate appraisals, etc, etc.
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>>If my understanding here is not correct, I'm sure someone will let me
>>know. (Of course, if they are not a lawyer, I'm not sure if that counts
>>either).
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> This isn't about doing what is legal, but rather about doing what
> is right. Yes, a non-doctor can legally give medical advice that
> might kill someone. It would still be wrong to do so. We have a
> moral and ethical obligation to do what is right, even when doing
> what is wrong is perfectly legal.
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> ...so next you put the uranium hexafluoride into the centrifuge...
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Again, intersting point; I do not disagree. Yet, 'what is right' is
also sometimes indeterminate. The lesson here is more like 'cavaet
emptor' - anyone would be well advised to not take undo risks based on
*any* advice found in a newsgroup, period. 

-- 
Luhan Monat (luhanis 'at' yahoo 'dot' com)
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