Can you be held liable for offering advice/answering questions on this site?

For instance if you are a nurse and you answer a question posed by a person looking for information and you tell them what you think they have, you are not licensed to do so, could a state board consider that practicing outside your license.





Or if you are a pharmacy technician and someone says can I take this with this. A patient should seek counsel from the pharmacist. But a pharmacy technician probably knows and may answer, could they be reprimanded by their state board of pharmacy.Can you be held liable for offering advice/answering questions on this site?
actually, yahoo terms of service specifically says that you use this with no liability, or guarantees. You have the responsibility to know that this is NOT a professional site and the answers are ';at your own risk';.


Professionals also are supposed to know limitations on ';telling someone what to do';. On the other hand.. anyone here including a technician, could provide a link to a website.


You normally are resposnsible for knowing the limit of ANY info that is on the internet.Can you be held liable for offering advice/answering questions on this site?
Nope. And just how would anyone on this site know who you are and what you are qualified as anyway? It isn't like you are posting your credentials up here (that would be a very bad idea). And people should know that on this site, they should take all the advice that they receive with a grain of salt. It is just a starting place...where you can get some ideas of what the possibilities are...and then you get proper advice from a professional who's credentials you can verify.





And if you do wish to extend advice and not get busted for it by your respective board, just go to a coffee shop where you pay for ten minute intervals on the net with nice anonymous dollar bills. And that way, as long as you don't give out any identifying details, you are completely anonymous and are unable to be reprimanded! Good luck!
No. It would be one individual asking another for their opinion only. Nothing in that can be construed as medical advice because no payment changed hands, and no proof of license or qualification was requested or shown.





Anyone online can claim to be a doctor or pharmacist. If you choose to believe them, then you assume the risk of following what they say.
no-its their responsibility to use advice or not--they could be talkin to a 2 yr old-if they choose to use it -its free personal choice-this is a your opinion site open to anyone-


tattoo sites are not liable for anything either-
questions and answers at any time are deletable without notice(tos),yahoo agrees to post advertising squares in return for fees.


,interlocutorum emptor
Nope. You're not making them follow your advice and you're not accepting payment for it.