Define being supportive.

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I recently had an IM conversation with a member who accused me of being degrading and non supportive, and said I should make a public appology over comments I made. I called the poster naive.

The question I have from you all, is what is your deffinition of being supportive? Sometimes I get ticked off over the blind "ahhh that's to bad" type of comments that get posted here, with no one actually giving out any usefull information. Or for that matter wrong information. In this case is the deffinition of supportive a gender based thing? Or does being supportive always mean warm fuzzies when the right response may not be warm and fuzzy at all?

Of course I could be all washed up and have just turned into a crotchity old man.

Specializes in Med/Surg/Ortho/HH/Radiology-Now Retired.

Having someone suggest that your view is naive, as opposed to being told you are naive, is two totally different scenarios.

The latter is a personal attack. The former is not an attack on the person themself.

Name calling or labelling is never supportive.

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