OVER!MY!MED!BODY! on Medical Wikis
(Be sure to check out the List of Medical Wikis)
OVER!MY!MED!BODY! is one of the physician blogs I regularly read, and I was pleased to see today that Graham’s position on wikis for medical information is much like my own, as revealed in his take on AskDrWiki:
…I will never, ever, ever, ever, ever use it for anything remotely related to patient care. I don’t care if it ends up having the top 10 results for my query on Google.
…I will never use a source that is immediately edittable by anyone at any time. I screwed with Ask Dr. Wiki’s Aortic Stenosis page, and it still lists one of my causes: Tricuspid Aortic Valve (it should be Bicuspid Aortic Valve). I don’t care if 99.9% of the time Dr. Wiki is correct. If the time that I’m using it is when it’s inaccurate, that’s a big problem.
…See also: Ganfyd, which requires proof of being a physician in Canada, the UK, New Zealand, or Australia. (But if you really wanted to mess with it, it wouldn’t be that hard.)
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January 3rd, 2007 at 5:12 pm
Yet there are over 1,000 members of the Facebook group “Wikipedia is helping me get through med school!”…
January 3rd, 2007 at 9:32 pm
I hope never to be treated by any of those doctors, Ratcatcher. Shame on those teaching them for not making clear how unwise this practice is.
February 27th, 2007 at 2:28 pm
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March 8th, 2007 at 11:38 am
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