[WikiEN-l] giving medical advice

[mboverload]

Yes, anything as utterly important as the Heimlich Manoeuvre needs to be
directly quoted from a medical source.  We are talking people's immediate
safety.

mboverload

On 7/27/06, zero 0000 <nought_0000 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Sorry if this has been discussed before.  I just noticed
> that [[Abdominal thrusts]] gives detailed advice on how to
> perform a medical procedure.  Maybe there are other such
> articles too.  Given the fashionable practice of filing
> suit whenever a medical procedure fails to work, it seems
> to me that this is rather dangerous for Wikipedia.
> Wouldn't it be legally safer (and more likely to be
> medically correct) if the actual procedure in such articles
> was presented as a direct quotation from a named medical
> authority?   With permission, of course.  Maybe there should
> also be a disclaimer.
>
> Zero.
>
>
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