Posted by Racer on April 11, 2006, at 18:36:23
In reply to Do I Offend Any Of You Here?, posted by Phillipa on April 11, 2006, at 11:51:58
Phillipa, if I'm correct that this has to do with my response on a thread above, that has nothing to do with you or with offense -- it has to do with my being very, very uncomfortable with both some of the advice being given and also with how strongly it was worded. (That applies to more than just you, by the way, in that thread.) You have told us that you are a nurse, and I think some people place more weight on what you have to say because of it. After all, you have a lot more training with a lot of these things than most of us have.
It's something that has worried me on more than one occasion, when someone posts something and gets a lot of advice to go against the doctor's orders. We don't always know that whole story when someone posts these things. I guess I get scared that there's something important that we don't know, and because of that the advice is going to do some real damage. Let's just use a hypothetical person, posting that he wants to stop taking Zyprexa because of weight gain, and he really doesn't have any anxiety... Sounds like a good reason to stop the drug -- unless he happens to be schizophrenic and just forgot to mention it, right? That's why I'm always in favor of suggesting that someone ask the doctor about things, rather than making changes without the doctor's input.
And, frankly, I also get nervous about legal liability. Obviously, that wouldn't really apply to you, but it might apply to Dr Bob, who runs this site. I don't know what the current position of the courts is on this sort of thing, but it still worries me. It also worries me that someone will take advice from people here rather than talking to his or her doctor, and will get hurt by doing it. Maybe this is just my own anxious personality, but I always worry when advice to do something gets more emphatic.
So, it wasn't that I was offended by you, Phillipa. It was just that I get very worried by certain types of advice, and you just happened to be the one giving that advice this time.
Also, Scott had some really good advice for you when he said this:
"Let us pretend that you have offended 1% of the people here. What would you do differently?" Even if you had offended me, does that really matter so much?Peace?
poster:Racer
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