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In article <dgt4ec$u9$1@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>,
David Rind <drind@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>Jason wrote:
>> David,
>> You may assume that I have no medical training or knowledge. I am not a
>> doctor but did take various courses in college such as biology and spend
>> some time working in a hospital. I have also read various books related to
>> various subjects such as kidney disease and heart disease. Believe it or
>> not, doctors learn much of what they know from medical books written by
>> doctors. I was shocked when someone in this newsgroup did not even know
>> that when one leg is slighly longer than the other leg--that it puts extra
>> stress on one leg and foot. This is especially true when the person jogs
>> or runs.
>> Jason
>
>You are stating as an accepted fact, again, that having one leg slightly
>longer than the other stresses the ankle (remember the original poster
>had ankle pain) with running or jogging. Please point to some research
>showing this to be correct.
>
>Lots of people have taken biology courses in college and read books and
>yet shouldn't be dispensing medical advice. What were the courses you
>took or the experiences you had working in a hospital that made you feel
>sufficiently qualified to dispense medical advice about how to evaluate
>ankle pain? Remember, you suggested the original poster get "scans". Did
>your courses address how and when to image the ankle?
>
>(To be honest, I don't really care so much about formal qualifications.
>I've been participating in sci.med for about a decade and a half, and in
>that time there have been many non-physicians here who had sufficient
>learning, either from training in other areas or just from personal
>studies, to post extremely knowledgeably on particular topics. David
>Wright is someone who currently who fits in this category. I see no
>evidence that Jason fits in this category.)
Why, Dr. Rind, you'll have me blushing. Thanks. Certainly, I have
been wrong on occasion, but I do try to acknowledge it when I am. In
any event, I hope I at least have enough sense to NOT try to diagnose
over the Internet, or to give advice on topics where I have no idea
what I'm talking about.
Jason promised, a while back, to stop giving medical advice, but it
seems he was too weak-willed to keep his promise.
-- David Wright :: alphabeta at prodigy.net
These are my opinions only, but they're almost always correct.
"If you can't say something nice, then sit next to me."
-- Alice Roosevelt Longworth
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