Posted by Mair on August 30, 2001, at 21:59:28
In reply to Reconsidered, posted by Pennie Lane on August 30, 2001, at 19:46:34
>Pennie Lane - why do we have to be the champions of publishers whose copyrighted material may be desseminated on the Internet? I'm sure these people can take care of themselves without our assistance.
I don't like what Sal does because I don't think the kind of information he passes along is very helpful to the lay person, and can, rather, be overwelming, confusing and misleading. I had a pdoc who dumped about 8 different articles from the Journal of Clinical Psychiatry on me when we were considering augmentation strategies. After trying to wade through this stuff I had no better idea what i should do and was pretty pissed with him for asking me to read things that were clearly beyond my ability to fully digest. When I first came on PB I was blown away by the pharmacological knowledge and understanding of many of the posters. I figured out quickly, however, that the technical info wasn't useful to me because I was never going to really understand it, but that the anecdotal info was. I also figured out that all of the information supplied on this board is best used to help someone like me pose the right questions to a pdoc - not to make self medication decisions. That everyone responds very idiosyncratically to ADs and other meds is a message that I think needs to be reiterated continually so that people understand the limitations of what they learn. It bothers me alot that Sal doesn't generally qualify his responses and the information he passes along as I think he should.
None of this has anything to do with a violation of copyright laws IMHO.
Mair
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