2009/5/28 Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonavaro@gmail.com:
Actually my life experience using wikipedia for self medication does not bear that out. There have been situtations where I was in dire straits, and without a doctor within easy reach, where simply consulting wikipedia provided me with the necessary information of which medicines I had been prescribed for completely different ailments, was a multipurpose drug workable in the situation I found myself. and that is a fact. I am sure there are phone-line services I could have consulted, but wikipedia worked ok.
And my grandmother is 100 years old and has smoked 40 a day.