There are many resources available on the internet these days, but most of the time people choose to dilly-dally on YouTube, never realizing that there is programming on the site that can offers advice for treating personal injuries.
Listening to medical advice from Doogie Houser could prove harmful
Our firm’s San Diego personal injury attorneys believe that it is good to have resources available for you to determine a course of action for treating your personal injuries, but we also believe it’s always best to have those treatments done by a doctor.
We are a little concerned that with so much misinformation on the World Wide Web someone will ultimately perform medical malpractice on themselves, worsening their condition in the process.
If you have injuries from anything (i.e. car accident, work related accident) and just don’t know how or where to get treatment, our personal injury lawyers have a helpful medical treatment resource page. You won’t find Doogie Houser or Gregory House giving advice, but you will find helpful links to get yourself professional treatment for your injuries.
With medical information about how to treat personal injuries available on YouTube, injured persons may feel that they have all the answers they need about how to recover from a personal injury. And while the site can be a good resource for advice and tips, injured persons should not feel capable of diagnosing and treating their personal injuries. If an internet site were to give the wrong information, medical negligence could occur, and instead of treating a condition, it could lead to greater personal injury or even cause wrongful death.
Say you are in a fairly minor car accident where everyone involved in the car crash appear to be free of personal injury. When you get home, your neck starts to hurt from a small whiplash injury and you do not have the money to afford the medical bill of a doctor.
Maybe you will turn on a television show with doctors or click on YouTube and find out that whiplash injuries are not all that serious and a few days rest should allow your neck to feel like new. The reality is that whiplash injuries can cause serious damage to an injured person’s neck and if not seen by a medical professional, could lead to physical disabilities.
Is that they way we really want to diagnosis and treat our personal injuries, by believing that whiplash injuries from an automobile accident are not that serious from someone on an internet video?
As personal injury attorneys in San Diego, we believe that medical treatment for personal injuries should be administered by professionals in the health care industry. The internet might be a good way to avoid a medical bill, but a personal injury should be left to the medical professionals not on television or YouTube.
Please feel free to call us now at 1-800-655-6585 or you can click here for a FREE consultation with an experienced personal injury attorney. We have a large bilingual staff that can assist you in either English or Spanish. No fee if no recovery.
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