if someone dies from advise given and taken on Yahoo?!
Question: If someone dies from advise given and taken on Yahoo?
Clarify that, someone asked a medical question, someone who is not a doctor answered it, diagnosed the disease and recommended treatment.
If the person asking took that as a reason not to see a doctor and died because of it, who is to blame?
Not sure where to post this so I'm putting it in the section the question came from.
Answers:
I would think the person taking the advice would have done so at their own peril. This is not a hospital or clinic. Those of us responding are merely offering our opinions based on the information given by the questioner.
Besides, Yahoo has a disclaimer posted on the bottom of the page.
Didn't know you could diagnose a disease through the internet. That usually requires some type of lab work, and other tests... along with a little common sense. Furthermore, some recommendations on Yahoo can be silly. People should really do more of their own personal research... and perhaps see a doctor when necessary. If someone tells me to jump out of a 12 story building window to cure a headache, I don't think I'll take that advice. But then again, some people lack common sense.
Whose to blame? The idiot who chose to consult anonymous internet users for medical advice rather than a licensed physician. Duh?
Its the person that died's own fault--answers.yahoo.com is not certified nor supported by the FDA, so don't blame the "messenger".