{"id":1551,"date":"2020-12-11T20:41:48","date_gmt":"2020-12-11T20:41:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/?p=1551"},"modified":"2020-12-11T20:41:48","modified_gmt":"2020-12-11T20:41:48","slug":"windsor-man-surprised-to-learn-he-is-not-a-doctor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/?p=1551","title":{"rendered":"Windsor man surprised to learn he is not a doctor"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Capturedoc-300x202.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-1552\" width=\"473\" height=\"318\" srcset=\"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Capturedoc-300x202.jpg 300w, http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Capturedoc-1024x688.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Capturedoc-768x516.jpg 768w, http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Capturedoc-446x300.jpg 446w, http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/Capturedoc.jpg 1288w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 473px) 100vw, 473px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Windsor, ON \u2013 Robert Manning, age 34, of Windsor, Ontario was surprised to learn this week that he is not a doctor.\u00a0 \u201cI couldn\u2019t believe it really.\u00a0\u00a0 I\u2019ve been dispensing medical advice on Facebook for the last eight months and just assumed I was qualified\u201d Mr. Manning said to gathered media on Friday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<p>He explained further \u201cWhen the pandemic started I watched a lot of You Tube videos and read as many Facebook posts as I possibly could about COVID-19.\u00a0 I really educated myself.  So in early April I felt I was ready to dispense medical advice on social media.\u00a0\u00a0 You can imagine how shocked I was to find out this past week that you need two university degrees and at least seven years in school to become a doctor.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>When asked if he will stop giving out medical advice on social media Mr. Manning replied \u201cI suppose I should probably stop but I don\u2019t know what I will do with my free time.\u00a0 I may stop posting about the pandemic and just post about things I am qualified to speak about.  Like how the earth is flat and that alien shape-shifters have infiltrated the government.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windsor, ON \u2013 Robert Manning, age 34, of Windsor, Ontario was surprised to learn this week that he is not a doctor.\u00a0 \u201cI couldn\u2019t believe it really.\u00a0\u00a0 I\u2019ve been dispensing medical advice on Facebook for the last eight months and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/?p=1551\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-1551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weekly-news","tag-whatsupwindsor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1551"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1553,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1551\/revisions\/1553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/whatsupwindsor.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}