Hey folks!

Hope you had a decent Thursday. Didn’t get to sleep until late last night, so woke up much-tired (and overslept a bit!) this morning.

So much for my workout routine today, but as soon as I’m done with this post I’m going to at least get in a prison workout downstairs before taking a shower and going to bed.

Work was… eh… blech. Quite boring, and it dragged-on way too long. Had a salad for lunch, then helped a woman I work with come up with a PowerPoint presentation to help sell her beach house.

I did manage to get my hair cut this afternoon. Yay! Went to a different Hair Cuttery which had like no wait! Now that’s what I’m talkin’ about boyz.

Now, if you’ll allow me to get on my soapbox for just a moment, I promise not to make this too long:

I am getting increasingly more disturbed at how people blithely offer-up medical advice in certain forums.

I’m a member of LPSG (the Large Penis Support Group). Ok, color me stupid but when I first joined up I actually figured it was a support group for guys with big dicks (because there can be issues with having a big dick folks.) Instead, I quickly found out that it’s nothing more than a site for folks who are into big dicks, who want to have big dicks, are themselves big dicks, or who lust-after and yearn to have big dicks, and to talk about penis enlargement techniques.

Not everyone, mind you, but a fair share.

I keep coming back because there are enough guys with genuine big dicks that I enjoy their conversations and banter that I don’t mind coming back, and also because I’m a size-queen myself.

Well, like most “social networks” (which LPSG is essentially), it’s natural to ask for advice among your circle of “friends,” or for pundits and armchair quarterbacks to interject their opinion. Sometimes as fact.

But the offering up of medical advice appears to be increasing in frequency, and the types of advice being offered are becoming more dangerous.

I would like to take this opportunity to urge each and every one of you not to seek medical advice on the internet, for whatever reason. You certainly shouldn’t offer-up any medical advice either. Even if you “know what the problem is” and are simply trying to help.

Even if you are a medical professional! (Actually, if you are one then you should already be familiar with the dangers by doing so.)

It is impossible to conduct a physical examination across the internet.

You won’t have the patient’s medical history.

You won’t be able to draw blood and collect other samples for lab work.

You can’t judge the patients’ body language.

But most importantly, odds are you neither have the skills, background, knowledge, education, or resources, to provide safe and accurate advice.

This goes for anything!

Did you know that even telling someone they should probably take an over-the-counter antacid (e.g. Rolaids) can have severe medical consequences if the person happens to be taking certain antibiotics?

In addition, not everyone is a candidate for every surgery or treatment regiment.

Yet day in, and day out, I read more and more posts from people seeking medical advice in chat rooms and forums, and I see others replying confidently, “You obviously have ______. You need to have a ______.”

Actually, if you really want to know what prompted all this it’s the growing number of calls I’m seeing for men to become circumcised because each of them has phimosis. Phimosis is real mind you, but it only affect 1% of uncircumcised adult men throughout the world. Log-on to LPSG and you’d be under the impression that every uncircumcised male has phimosis and is the perfect candidate for circumcision.

Bottom line, no amount of the collective wisdom of the Internet will, for the forseeable future, be a surrogate for, or replacement for, the wisdom and experience of a trained, licensed, physician or clinician.

If you’re having a medical problem, your first action should be to contact a healthcare professional.

If you’re having a problem coping with your condition, then by all means the Internet can provide a wealth of emotional support.

I know most people mean well when they offer-up advice, and I am by no means attempting to dissuade anyone from being compassionate or offering support, but there’s a big difference between expressing empathy towards someone and recommending the individual self-medicate, self-treat, or self-diagnose without medical supervision.

To do otherwise just shows one’s irresponsibility.

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