On 2/18/07, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
On 18/02/07, George Chriss GChriss@psu.edu wrote:
Is there a substantive reason that we provide dosage information on
prescription drugs? I generally remove the following sections on sight:
Please don't do that. It's useful knowledge to know what dosages are typically given for what.
e.g. amitryptyline, which has quite different dosages for depression and for chronic pain relief (and has come into its own for the latter after SSRIs beat it for the former).
- d.
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It may be useful knowledge, but it opens wikipedia up to some SEVERE liability concerns if someone tries to use that information to self-medicate, and even worse if it turns out someone takes an overdose because of vandalism that wasn't caught in time or vandalism that was archived to some site that mirrors...
That's a good enough reason alone to remove those entries. Let the doctors handle it, or let someone look it up on an actual medical site.
Parker