[WikiEN-l] Medical Disclaimer

[Ray Saintonge]

Jesse Alter wrote:

> *DISCLAIMER*
>
>    Please remember that Wikipedia is offered for informational use
>    only. The information is in most cases not reviewed by
>    professionals. You are advised to contact your doctor for
>    health-related decisions.
>
> Should we be adding disclaimers like that to most of the articles? Do 
> we even need a disclaimer? If so, I think it should be somewhere else, 
> like on the front page, and not on each article we have. I can only 
> imagine seeing the big red disclaimer on [[Food Poisoning]], 
> [[Peyronie_disease]], [[Gingivitis]], [[Cancer]], and [[Chiropractic 
> medicine]] :-P
>
> I thought of removing the disclaimer from each of the Hepatitis 
> articles but decided I should get a consensus here, first.

The disclaimer is in the right place.  It would be useless on the front 
page.  A person who has reached the hepatitis article from a Google 
search, may not even know that the front page exists.  There are always 
individuals in the general public whoce capacity for stupidity is 
absolutely brilliant. :-D

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