Re: Safety of anal intercourse.

In article <429b26bd$0$113$65c69314@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>, Tom Salls
<noaddress@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

> jason@xxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> > No--it's not a bad thing. However, as you may know, most doctors and
> > nurses are really busy with their jobs and they don't have the time needed
> > to spend several hours each day helping people on newsgroups. I have a
> > great amount of respect for the doctors and nurses in this newsgroup that
> > do take time out of their busy lives to help people in newsgroups like
> > this one. That means people that are NOT doctors or nurses do what we can
> > to help people in various newsgroups. I respect those people. I don't have
> > any respect at all for subcribers that instead of helping people with
> > their knowledge visit newsgroups in order criticize those of us that do
> > try to help people. Instead of being a critic--they should just post their
> > own advice. The posters are intelligent enough to figure out the best
> > solution. They don't need or want to start battles with subscribers.
>
> That's a fair point Jason - you're right, I was being rude and I
> apologise.
>
> I think you'd ruffle a lot fewer feathers if you put a "I am not a
> doctor" disclaimer in each post. I'm a med student, and I wouldn't
> dream of speaking with the authority that you have for some recent
> posts: I know enough about my knowledge to know how limited it is, and
> how difficult it is to apply what I do have over the Internet without
> being able to see the person.
>
> In most cases, I think that poor advice, no matter how well-intentioned,
> is worse than no advice at all.

Tom,
Thanks for an intelligent response. I hope that you succeed in becoming a
doctor. You may be right about letting people know that I am not a doctor.
I believe that other subscribers should follow this same policy and you
should let those people know of this policy if they fail to do it--not
just me.
I'll try to remember--esp. if it involves a person that has serious
medical problems. One of the problems that I have noticed in this and
other medical newsgroups is that some of the people that post problems
never get any advice from anyoone. One such person posted their problem in
several different medical newsgroups and none of the subscribers provided
any help. I decided to tell the person my opinion and refer them to their
own doctor. The following day--there must have been at least 4 subscribers
that criticized the advice that I gave to the person. I later wondered why
those same people did not give the person any advice during the prior
three days. It was my impression that they don't care about trying to help
people--instead they really get some sort of thrill out of criticizing
people. If they have medical knowledge--they should use the medical
knowledge to help people instead of making use of their medical knowledge
to criticize people. Those kind of subscribers need to find another hobby
or use their medical knowledge to help people. It's my guess that many of
those subscribers are afraid to post responses that help people since they
know that other subscribers like the ones mentioned above will criticize
them. George Will once stated: "It's easier to be a critic than it is to
write a book". I say--"It's easier to criticize me than it is to provide
medical advice that helps people".
Jason

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