[WikiEN-l] giving medical advice

Fri Jul 28 11:22:07 UTC 2006

On Jul 27, 2006, at 11:14 PM, zero 0000 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.

This is the Heimlich Manoeuvre and it would be very irresponsible not  
to have detailed advice.

Fred