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Great to have some company. We desperately need some help with emergency medicine. If you have any question let me know. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 22:15, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

Comment on use by medical student

Currently have a paper in publication looking at the use of Wikipedia by medical professionals. 70% of student and 50% of practicing physicians use Wikipedia in clinical practice. Yes if used improperly this might not be the best but this is what is done. Wikipedia's Medical article get nearly 200 million page views a month. [1] What we write here matters if I may quote Mel Herbert. This makes it all the more important that we get involved carry a camera and make this the best source possible. That we not ignore it but educate people about its usage. Wikipedia has a article quality scale for example. You will notice little stars and green circles on some pages meaning that they have been peer reviewed and marked as reliable. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 22:21, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

Burn

I have reverted your changes to burn not because I disagreed with them but the formatting was wrong. We have WP:MEDMOS that give guidance on formatting of medical articles and WP:MEDRS that outlines info on referencing. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 22:23, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

A great tool for formatting references

[2] Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 22:40, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

An outline of ER topics

[3] Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 22:40, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

Q

Not sure what you mean by "not showing up in the heading"? Your edition to PEA was well done. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 22:49, 14 December 2010 (UTC)

Refs

Fixed a couple of ref. The first one you write <ref name=AB10>ref here</ref> after which you can use <ref name=AB10/> --Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 01:44, 15 December 2010 (UTC)

Caps

In headings the first word has caps and subsequent words do not. Cheers Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 10:28, 18 December 2010 (UTC)

Patients

As we are not writing for physicians we usually use the term person rather than patient, victim, or client. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 10:33, 18 December 2010 (UTC)

WikiMedicine

Hi

I'm contacting you because, as a participant at Wikiproject Medicine, you may be interested in a new multinational non-profit organization we're forming at m:Wikimedia Medicine. Even if you don't want to be actively involved, any ideas you may have about our structure and aims would be very welcome on the project's talk page.

Our purpose is to help improve the range and quality of free online medical content, and we'll be working with like-minded organizations, such as the World Health Organization, professional and scholarly societies, medical schools, governments and NGOs - including Translators Without Borders.

Hope to see you there! --Anthonyhcole (talk) 07:14, 9 November 2012 (UTC)

The Wikipedia Library now offering accounts from Cochrane Collaboration (sign up!)

The Wikipedia Library gets Wikipedia editors free access to reliable sources that are behind paywalls. Because you are signed on as a medical editor, I thought you'd want to know about our most recent donation from Cochrane Collaboration.

• Cochrane Collaboration is an independent medical nonprofit organization that conducts systematic reviews of randomized controlled trials of health-care interventions, which it then publishes in the Cochrane Library.
• Cochrane has generously agreed to give free, full-access accounts to 100 medical editors. Individual access would otherwise cost between $300 and $800 per account.
• If you are still active as a medical editor, come and sign up :)

Cheers, Ocaasi ^{t | c} 20:22, 16 June 2013 (UTC)