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What should Main (F&N) FAQ say about health/medicine questions & answers?

The Wikipedia Reference Desks have a prohibition against requests for medical advice, and a user there has proposed a criterion for identifying such questions: Can the question be answered complet …
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What should Main (F&N) FAQ say about health/medicine questions & answers?

The FAQ is not specific about the extent to which medical-advice questions are appropriate at Fitness & Nutrition. The FAQ does prohibit vague or unanswerable questions, overly local (personal) quest …
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Medical questions

I would add a category to the effect: "Answering the question requires the answerer to make or infer a diagnosis, i.e. the practice of medicine". This is one reason (there are many) such questions a …
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