On: My embarrassing picture went viral

[arrrg]

That’s between her and her doctor and none of your business.

Why do you think it’s proper to give random people unsolicited health advice. That’s widely inappropriate and impolite. Please don’t do it.

[cabalamat → arrrg]

> Why do you think it’s proper to give random people unsolicited health advice

Why do you think it’s proper to give random people unsolicited internet posting advice? Is there any good reason I shouldn't regard you as a hypocrite?

[arrrg → cabalamat]

Is it really so hard for you to see the difference between medical advice and advice about polite behavior? The difference seems very clear cut to me. One is most definitely not like the other.

[sejje → arrrg]

The difference, I'm guessing, is that you feel like more of an expert on politeness than the medical field.

[arrrg → sejje]

Now, I’m just speculating, but I would guess that most doctors would shy away from giving random people they read about on the internet health advice. Health is personal and private, discussing it with someone in an appropriate manner requires either expertise or at least strong personal ties to that person and is usually done in private. That seems like a pretty standard societal convention to me.

[cabalamat → arrrg]

> The difference seems very clear cut to me.

Then perhaps you'd be good enough to enlighten us all as to what it is.

[nknighthb → cabalamat]

Other members of society are in a position to correct your social misbehavior. People other than this woman's doctor are in no position to correct her approach to her own, personal medical issues that you are neither adequately informed nor qualified to judge.