Do medication reviews have a place on dooyoo? Reviews

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 ...  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 ...  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 ...  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 ...  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 ...  Read the complete review

There is great debate at the moment about whether there should be a place on Dooyoo for reviews about medication. I feel quite stongly about this, and think that there are pros and cons of such a descision being taken, and that the outcome of reviews could have both positive and negative effects on readers. On the one hand how good ...  Read the complete review

I came across this category while browsing the Dooyoo site and, to be honest, I find it quite strange that the question of a 'medications' review category should even be considered. This is not a medical site and the vast majority of those reading and writing on it are not health professionals. Therefore, no one is qualified ...  Read the complete review

There has been a lot of debate on whether reviews on medication should be posted on consumer review sites, including Dooyoo. It certainly is not an easy and clear-cut topic, although certain individuals feel strongly about the fact that the only place that medical advice should be obtained is from are doctors. ***Why write and ...  Read the complete review

Should there be a category for medicines on Dooyoo ? In my opinion, it's a dangerous area. Imagine for example that vulnerable people access the site through the search engine on Google, and come across a review where inaccuracies lead them to believe there is that wonder drug out there, that suited one person who wrote a review. ...  Read the complete review

Hell no! Would be an accurate, but somewhat short answer to the question posed above so I suppose I should wax lyrical as to why I think medication reviews have no place on dooyoo. Medications are like no other product on dooyoo in that for me the most important factor in these reviews are the factual accuracy, rather than the ...  Read the complete review

I always believe if you know the facts then you can make an informed decision, and I believe that to be true with medication reviews. If the information isn't here, then people with just look elsewhere for the same information. This site does not hold exclusive information and if people's opinion on a particular medication enables you ...  Read the complete review