On 04/17/2014 12:47 PM, auxsvr@gmail.com wrote:
Second, telling someone they are ill regardless of how they feel is not
slanderous. If it was then doctors would not be able to tell of diagnoses. For example, an x-ray may show up a previously unsuspected condition, cancer or TB, for example.
I'm not a lawyer, although I could ask a relative of mine about the matter, but saying that someone is ill is not merely an opinion, since doctors can decide based on facts whether this is true or false. What you and others are trying to convince me about here frankly does not make any sense at all.
Sorry, I think you lawyer relative will agree with me. There are deterministic tests and non deterministic tests. Not all are 'facts'. They are evidence, and like evidence in a law court, there can be differing reasons and explanations of how those 'observations' came about. Cancers, for example, have vanished for no apparent reason; patients have lived well past the life expectancy their doctors have given them. There's no shortage in law or medicine of 'other explanations' coming to light. Both are also examples of 'complex systems' and such systems rarely have single and simplistic cause-effect. -- A habit of basing convictions upon evidence, and of giving to them only that degree or certainty which the evidence warrants, would, if it became general, cure most of the ills from which the world suffers. -- Bertrand Russell -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org To contact the owner, e-mail: opensuse+owner@opensuse.org