text: should there be guidelines regarding q&as about medical conditions discussed here? i've only just joined answers this week but have noticed the crazy number of people that ask questions about about medical conditions.  obviously we are all just trying to be helpful but what if wrong and unfounded opinions are taken for fact?   could this be a disaster waiting to happen? i've been thinking the same thing. because of the wacky answers i've seen on this site, i have spent the last few on-call nights directing people to get proper treatment.   i think this section is a disaster waiting to happen. it only takes one person to convince a patient to delay treatment. i've said it before it takes more than typing www.webmd to give accurate medical advice.   to the kate person, you might think differently if your grandmother were given bad info from someone making a joke, or selling their "cure-all". freedom of information isn't always a good thing. disease doesn't recognize democracy. your chlorine analogy is not funny, these are real people i might have to take care of down the road when their problem has gotten worse after receiving bad info from this website. fighting medical ignorance has been difficult enough with scam artists making their home on the internet targeting the desperate, and the evening news proclaiming "carbs" are bad, no wait now they are good, and telling the public everything causes cancer. of course the public is confused. this forum only makes it worse.  i've written to yahoo answers about this, but haven't received a reply.