Medicine yahoo answers question?

Question

what kind of people answer questions about medicine on yahoo answers?

Answer 1

I'm an RN who has experience in medical-surgical nursing, geriatrics (my main clinical area of interest), and now doing consulting in healthcare systems.  I have been impressed with the number of physicians and fellow nurses and other healthcare professionals who respond to this board, and their thoughful responses. But on some days I confess I do feel like a random person who knows nothing.

Answer 2

Well, I'm a doctor who's double specializing in infectious diseases and critical care medicine. Although, I assume that a fair amount of people don't hold any qualifications whatsoever.

Then again, I personally know a few doctors who occasionally log on and answer a few questions.

Answer 3

If it bothers you so much what are you doing here?

Answer 4

I agree with Marie but one thing I have noticed from being around medical circles for many years: some doctors really can't spell!  I have spent more time in pharmacy than anything else and so I guess when doctors have misspelled it has been drug names (not usually medical conditions, as Marie used as an example).  One example is panadeine: I can't remember how many doctors spelled that one wrong (and yet it is so common).  Panadiene.  Panadene.  So on and so forth.  I can only imagine that, if they can't spell common drug names, they probably can't spell common medical conditions, too.

I have a Bachelor's degree in Biomedical Science, Honours in Microbiology, and I'm currently studying for a PhD in Microbiology.

Answer 5

I'd say you get a range of all of that.  I know there are many people here who are professionals of all kinds--doctors, nurses, pharmacists, EMTs--and then there are random people as well who may or may not know what they're talking about.

It's usually pretty clear who is who, but either way, it's an anonymous forum and there's no conditions on who can answer, so you take your chances.  Rule of thumb for me:  if they misspell the condition they're supposed to be explaining, or if they cite Wikipedia as their source, chances are that they're not experts.  ;-)

Answer 6

Usually, people who have had experience with the condition & remedies.  

Answer 7

Well I guess people that work with medicine and study it like me....wink