Re: my cut is not healing

Howard McCollister wrote:
"Jason Johnson" <jason@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:jason-1905060804140001@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
I stated that it "could be one of the reasons"--I did not state that
I was sure that it was the reason. I noted that you did not offer any
advice. Are you one of the people that rarely ever provides advice
but instead
spend your time criticizing people that do provide advice. I refer
to such people at "net cops".
Please use your medical knowledge to help people.
Also--look up the term "hypercoagulation"

Jason, I try to post only about things where I have some knowledge.
For me to advise people about coagulation problems would be unwise
and would do them a disservice. You obviously have no such
compunctions - the sheer magnitude of the ignorance about the medical
problems for which you provide anonymous medical advice on this
newsgroup is mind boggling to me. The alarming part is that there are
people posting questions here who might actually take your generally
laughable "advice" seriously.


Are you one of the people that rarely ever provides advice but
instead
spend your time criticizing people that do provide advice. I refer
to such people at "net cops".

You've been here long enough that you already know the answer to that
question? You may label me "net cop" if you wish...perhaps you can
guess how I would label somebody who gets their internet jollies,
some kind of sense of self-importance from playing doctor on Usenet.

I don't criticize people who provide reasonable advice here, but I do
feel free to criticize non-medical people who provide stupid,
pointless or just plain wrong medical advice. I would advise the OP
about hypercoagulation if my particular medical specialty gave me
some expertise there, but it doesn't. That doesn't seem to stop you,
who has NO medical specialty at all.
You ought to find another hobby, Jason. Why don't you subscribe to
alt.nuclear-physics, or alt.rocket-science, where you can go to post
your advice without hurting anyone?

HMc

Howard...I don't always agree with you on everything, but I think you will
agree that I am pretty careful not to make medical comments without having a
fair degree of confidence that what I am saying is reasonable (or I won't
say it). This applies to this group and even more to the heartburn group,
which both of us frequented a lot in the last few months.

But I have to agree with you on this whole heartedly. Jason tends to jump
the gun a little bit before he understands enough, or does enough research,
and he tends to make diagnoses and suggestions (playing doctor as you said)
based on his limited experience and quick Internet searches (sorry Jason - I
say this recognizing we have had good discussions in the BPH ng, which you
joined recently).

I don't like doctor's in general as you know, and we have discussed this
several times (and I have a vast amount of bad experiences going to
doctors), but I try not to play doctor, unless I really feel I have a valid
and reasonable comment (and then it is just a comment - and I often will say
I am not a doctor).

I was surprised to see what Jason said earlier when he referred to you as a
"net cop", and I didn't think he was like that, and thought it was
disrespectful to you (as a medical professional), and inappropriate.

I hope this stops soon, or I feel we will lose your medical expertise and
the time that you volunteer in the ng's, which would be a shame.

Pete


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