Do medication reviews have a place on dooyoo?

I had never considered the implications of reviewing medication on dooyoo until I was having a look through some of the dooyoo-based discussion topics and this topic came up. I can see both sides of the argument really but I will start by looking at the case against reviewing medication. I suppose the main issue is the lack of knowledge on the part of the reviewer. I don't mean this as a put-down to anyone reviewing a medication or medical product - I have myself reviewed the Implanon contraceptive implant - I simply mean that a consumer is never going to be as knowledgeable as a medical specialist in any given area. There may be side effects of the product ...  Read the complete review

Everyone takes medicine from minor problems to major ones. Dooyoo should encourage users to write reviews on medical products to inform other potential users of benefits or disadvantages. Often a cure is achievement by more than one product, by telling us members about the good points and bad points about a product is what this site is all about.. Medication reviews have a place on this site and whenever it is allowed people will find it extremely helpful. Issue of wrong recommendation may encourage some doubters. I am not one of them. This site is basically an indicator of something. For comprehensive information people could see the chemists or ...  Read the complete review

Having just read someone’s review about whether or not medication should be on Dooyoo , I thought I’d just put my twopenneth in . So my personal opinion . I think it could be good or bad depending what spirit the reviews are wriiten in . You can never assume that there would not be a malicious review . Alternatively there could be someone with a pecuniary interest . However medication is a consumer product , of sorts , when all's said and done . Having a thyroid condition which requires daily medication for the rest of my life I would find it helpful to read someones honest opinion of Thyroxine . When I was given radioactive Iodine to treat my ...  Read the complete review

No medical reviews here please. Liability is the main issue. Trust is an issue is well Quality of information and reliability is important too. Writing this sort of reviews won't do anygood. Drugs behave different in people. Therefore one persons good review is not relevant to the other person and vice versa. I would never allow reviews on this site that mentioned drugs and cures for serious illness. If categories were opened and users had no choice I would hope that only reviews which guide people on the product would be put on the site. Recommendations and cures will be in bad taste. I hope Dooyoo ...  Read the complete review

Dooyoo is, and has always been, a site offering information for consumers. We can read and write reviews about various products out there, but it should be noted that the reviews are only written by those of us who can be bothered to give feedback on a product. A lot of the time, people only come online to write about things that have severely hacked them off (this is more true for the non-member reviews that have popped up of late). The companies responsible for these products never have a voice as they don't come to Dooyoo to review their own products. If there are a lot of reviews on something, it's easier to get a more balanced idea of how good or bad a ...  Read the complete review