[WikiEN-l] Fundraiser quote of the day

[Adrian]

Charlotte Webb schrieb:
> Obviously one would go to med school to pursue
> their own dream of becoming a <!--surgeon or a--> dermatologist or whatever.
>
> —C.W.
>   
"Dermatologist is Greek for 'fake doctor'" -Dr. Cox

As with most topics, Wikipedia articles are quite useful to gain a quick 
overview, and to estimate relative importance of involved aspects and 
understand the basic structure of a topic which can be tedious (and 
awesome, literally, in areas like physiology) using several standard 
textbooks when you're getting started to prepare for a test.

Also, studies on preservation of basic knowledge with practising 
physicians suggest they (and not only students) should use a readily 
available online source like Wikipedia a lot more frequently. Far too 
many of them don't even know some of the basics like ideal blood 
pressure etcpp and they don't have the time to look all of this up time 
and again. And textbooks, especially in the field of clinical medicine, 
can become quickly and utterly outdated as the latest research is made 
available and finds its way into advanced training.

It's not like they have to rely on wikinformation(tm) from articles 
about e.g. World War II or Star Wars. ''That'' would be reason to worry.