Medical Advice

"*Medical advice online is nowhere near as good as face to face time with a doctor. However, it is a whole hell of a lot cheaper. Unless you live in Canada, in which case it's a whole lot quicker.*"
―Erik
Medical Advice is the 61st lesson of Internet Comment Etiquette. It was released on December 19, 2016.

## Summary

Erik looks for some medical advice online but it's just an ad. The commenters don't know what they're talking about so Erik leaves a second opinion.

The first bit of medical advice that Erik finds is a woman writhing on the floor while explaining that cow's milk is poisonous to humans. Then he finds out that someone cured AIDS with fruit and vegetables.

Erik's cheesesteak gives him gas pains so he looks that up on WebMD and it tells him he has Crohn's Disease. He doesn't like that answer so he looks it up on YouTube, but all he finds is a woman reading word for word from his favorite book Gas Acidity Heart Burn. Erik doesn't approve of plagiarism, so he scolds them, spams them, and subscribes to them.

Erik decides he needs a more personalized approach for medical advice, so he asks some people on YouNow for help. He figures out that they aren't doctors, so he tries to get answers from Yahoo Answers instead and immediately regrets it. He tries a more mature website like reddit, but he doesn't get any good advice there either.

He finally finds a real doctor on the internet when he stumbles across Dr. Pimple Popper. He obscures the videos with a Shakira music video so his students don't have to watch it, and then he watches the video while eating a cheesesteak.

He concludes that online healthcare is of much poorer quality than in person healthcare, but it's cheaper than American healthcare and quicker than Canadian healthcare.

## Comments

*Yo, real shitty medical advice considering this video gave my computer a virus. I once kicked my dog off a bridge by accident so I'm not exactly a smart guy but it doesn't take Sherlock fucking Holmes to see that this video stinks like my dick after a week in a FEMA camp and this comment section needs a vaccine so the government can mind control it to shut the fuck up CHECK THE FUCKING SKIES THEY'RE SPRAYING HORMONES ON OUR BABIES AND THIS VIDEO IS SUPER PRO ;-)*
- Erik

*Hey your cameras fucked up and you were barely in frame the whole time you gotta stand farther away and don't lay on the floor because all we can see is the lower half of your body and you keep moving around all weird I mean I know you're a doctor not a cinematographer, but this is kinda pathetic. Anyway thanks for the medical advice, didn't realize cows were killing us but yo jokes on them lol I'm eating a cheesesteak FUCK YOU
POISON COWS*
- Erik

*(\_)\_):::::::::::::::::::D~~~~THE SHADOW MASTERS ARE WATCHING YOU~~~~*
- Erik

*Ohhhh you got busted! I just busted you harder than this nut I popped off one time that exposed the hardwood floor underneath my carpet. Speaking of exposed, you guys suck at citing sources and by sources I mean your verbatim ripped off scripts for these piece of shit videos. Your whole channel is just you reading other people's work into a microphone and you still fucked that up. At least film yourself from the waist down writhing around on the floor like an asshole while you waste our time. I'd tell you to go to the principal's office for cheating but only if the “principal's office" is an island in the middle of the ocean with no internet access so I don't have to stumble across this horseshit anymore long story short I ordered these pills for my ED and they work great go to salviaerik dot com and use referral code "e748493qdfsvd" for 10% off erectile dysfunction ED men's health easy cure men's cure erections health penis healthy men last longer happy relationship cancelled divorce Saudi Arabia talk to girls cheap sugar pills herbs herb medicine natural pill from asian asia not from west there is no cure you will be alone forever healthy living AIDS cure 9/11 Dick Cheney sexy singles penis extender*
- Erik

*Can you give me medical advice real quick**My discharges have been cloudy and infrequent, is this a reaction to Narcotic Analgesics?*
- Erik

*YO I scissor kicked my dog and now his jaw's stuck sideways. How do I fix this before my mom gets home from work**gOOGLE SAID I HAVE CROHNS*
- Erik

*HOW TO DELETE PREGNANCY WITHOUT GIRLFRIEND KNOWING**whoops i meant to type that in google*
- Erik

*My doctor wrote me a prescription for "get eaten by a pack of dogs" is that real?*
- Erik

*I stomp dogs**I stomped my dog so flat that I was able to wrap a hoagie with him**nah cmon say the whole name**it's pronounced "AH-YEE-STOM-PAH-DAW-G"*
- Erik

*Yo I'm gonna hit you with a nip evaluation. Lemme see those nips and Docta Moneystacks might be prescribe you some pills or somethin I dunno I got fired from being a vet because I kept sewing cats together.*
- DoctaMoneystacks

*Hey have you guys tried watching this in reverse? It's the most frustrating thing you'll ever witness. Tell you what though props to that old timer for letting you film this disgusting miracle of modern medicine. Your video ruined spaghetti for me the way corporate elitists have ruined that old guy's retirement fund and don't even get me started on what they're putting in cow's milk which is another food item I can no longer enjoy after watching this video. Hey you guys know any good pills I should be taking? I'm bored of all the normal stuff my doctor has in stock and I wanna get zooted tonight for my daughter's bat mitzvah okay thanks can't wait to fall asleep to this later dick cheney 9/11 i'm a lady free sex hotline erectile dysfunction herbs herbal call today for saudi wife blebleghlg bleblaebfgalefb blahbliesolahrveipsdvbhjn*
- Erik

*@realDonaldTrump Hundred bucks says you replace Obamacare with just Obamacare again but you call it Trumpcare, bankrupt it, and blame Obama.*
- @commentiquette

*Can you say "YO THANKS FOR WATCHING LOL I STOMP DOGS"**nice dude that was perfect, i'm the one who stomps dogs though*
- Erik

## Context

1. ↑ Narcotic Analgesics is another term for opioids such as oxycodone or fentanyl. Constipation and trouble urinating can be possible side effects.
2. ↑ In 2017, Trump tried to replace the Affordable Care Act (ACA, sometimes called Obamacare) with the American Healthcare Act (AHCA, sometimes called Trumpcare). It was opposed by all Democrats and many Republicans in Congress, so it didn't pass.

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