Timeline for On or off topic: Medical advice
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:32 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Jun 21, 2012 at 13:43 | history | edited | ChrisW | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Feb 21, 2011 at 22:51 | comment | added | ChrisW | @Neil "I've never understood " -- I expect that some people are asking for [your] personal experience. For example it's not entirely unreasonable for me to ask you "which bike for me?" instead of asking a bike salesperson. OTOH I'd expect that it would be my responsibility and not yours, if I acted on such advice; and, a lot (although not all) of your advice to me will be to contact my LBS. | |
| Feb 21, 2011 at 19:58 | comment | added | Goodbye Stack Exchange Mod | That seems obvious to me. I've never understood why people go to the internet with these questions, but they do. However, Stack Exchange has a policy in place for this, so that'll have to be the final word. | |
| Feb 21, 2011 at 19:43 | comment | added | ChrisW | @Neil - If you really want advice about legal liability, then I think you're supposed to ask a lweyer. | |
| Feb 21, 2011 at 18:28 | comment | added | Goodbye Stack Exchange Mod | Mostly legal. In the US, people are pretty lawsuit-happy, unfortunately. It's not much of a stretch to imagine a well-meaning person giving medical advice to someone and getting sued for their trouble. | |
| Feb 20, 2011 at 4:18 | history | answered | ChrisW | CC BY-SA 2.5 |