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Does this work with medical emergencies?

Don't say presumptious, lazy shit that walls people out like, "Is there a doctor in the house?"

Instead, say, "Help! How do I bleed (so to speak) bubbles of air out of someone's aorta?"



No, you ask for what you want. "Person X has air in their Aorta, I need a doctor quickly, this is an emergency!"

Similarily if the person with the Java question needed an expert to do something for them they could have asked: "Any Java expert here willing to take a job? You can contact me at foo@bar.org"

Your question is valid if you're the doctor yourself and just need a piece of knowledge to fix things yourself (as isn't uncommon in the programming world)


Is this a serious comment?


The question is, is this a serious article? Just let people ask, is there Java expert here. Who cares?


I would say the page explains who might care and why they might care. Could you elaborate on why you disagree with the reasoning?




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