Comments on: Wikipedia and medicine http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/12/wikipedia-and-medicine.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 17:18:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: NCursehttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/12/wikipedia-and-medicine.html#comment-69500 NCurse Sun, 10 Dec 2006 16:38:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2006/12/wikipedia-and-medicine.html#comment-69500 Medicine Portal faces no problems, you probably mean that the medicine wikiproject faces some. <br/><br/>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. <br/><br/>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) 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)

]]> By: Anonymoushttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2006/12/wikipedia-and-medicine.html#comment-69488 Anonymous Sun, 10 Dec 2006 04:55:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2006/12/wikipedia-and-medicine.html#comment-69488 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!<br/>Wikipedia should present the most accurate information. 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.

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