Clinical Cases looks at some of the problems and controversies facing the The Medicine Portal at Wikipedia. My guess is that, like the other Wikipedia topics, it will sort itself out. Eventually.
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I’m in first year medical school, and it’s not uncommomn to hear some word from a Proff. that we have not heard before. I, and most of my peers, resort to Wikipedia for explanations to these words. The importance of the service we are being trained for cannot be overemphasized; hence the more accurate our sources of information are, the better!
Wikipedia should present the most accurate information.
Medicine Portal faces no problems, you probably mean that the medicine wikiproject faces some.
By the way, we’d need more experts in Wikipedia as we have thousands of medicine-related articles and there are about 50 editors who can work on these.
I also left a comment on the Clinical Cases blog’s post. Quite often, we have a debate (to be honest, an edit-war) on a medicine-related subject that could be solved easily by a real expert. (like Breast implant’s case recently)
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