Actually I think providing dosage information would *avoid* much more harm than it would cause. Most people use books on drugs to check up on their prescriptions and educate themselves. If the doctors mistakenly prescribed 200mg tablets when the standard dosage is 20mg, then I'm sure you'd want the person to be able to know that.
Will
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2009/5/26 WJhonson@aol.com:
Actually I think providing dosage information would *avoid* much more harm than it would cause. Most people use books on drugs to check up on their prescriptions and educate themselves. If the doctors mistakenly prescribed 200mg tablets when the standard dosage is 20mg, then I'm sure you'd want the person to be able to know that.
I would hope the pharmacist that filled the prescription would spot something like that. I'm not sure people second guessing their doctors will have a net benefit...
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 6:39 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com wrote:
2009/5/26 WJhonson@aol.com:
Actually I think providing dosage information would *avoid* much more harm than it would cause. Most people use books on drugs to check up on their prescriptions and educate themselves. If the doctors mistakenly prescribed 200mg tablets when the standard dosage is 20mg, then I'm sure you'd want the person to be able to know that.
I would hope the pharmacist that filled the prescription would spot something like that. I'm not sure people second guessing their doctors will have a net benefit...
Agreed. Imagine second-guessing the *other* way round.
I was more concerned to read that nurses in hospitals were using Wikipedia.
Carcharoth
On Tue, May 26, 2009 at 1:39 PM, Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.comwrote:
2009/5/26 WJhonson@aol.com:
Actually I think providing dosage information would *avoid* much more
harm
than it would cause. Most people use books on drugs to check up on their prescriptions and educate themselves. If the doctors mistakenly prescribed 200mg tablets when the standard
dosage
is 20mg, then I'm sure you'd want the person to be able to know that.
I would hope the pharmacist that filled the prescription would spot something like that. I'm not sure people second guessing their doctors will have a net benefit...
Just as likely that the pharmacist got it wrong, really.
2009/5/26 Thomas Dalton thomas.dalton@gmail.com:
I would hope the pharmacist that filled the prescription would spot something like that.
Bunch of people in Portsmouth recently discovered otherwise
Thomas Dalton wrote:
2009/5/26 WJhonson@aol.com:
Actually I think providing dosage information would *avoid* much more harm than it would cause. Most people use books on drugs to check up on their prescriptions and educate themselves. If the doctors mistakenly prescribed 200mg tablets when the standard dosage is 20mg, then I'm sure you'd want the person to be able to know that.
I would hope the pharmacist that filled the prescription would spot something like that. I'm not sure people second guessing their doctors will have a net benefit...
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.
Yours,
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
Thomas Dalton wrote:
2009/5/26 WJhonson@aol.com:
Actually I think providing dosage information would *avoid* much more harm than it would cause. Most people use books on drugs to check up on their prescriptions and educate themselves. If the doctors mistakenly prescribed 200mg tablets when the standard dosage is 20mg, then I'm sure you'd want the person to be able to know that.
I would hope the pharmacist that filled the prescription would spot something like that. I'm not sure people second guessing their doctors will have a net benefit...
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.
Yours,
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
Whatever our policy, it should take into account what doctors, nurses, and people who are using medicine WILL make of Wikipedia. As we become more reliable and comprehensive, more use will be made of Wikipedia, especially by doctors. Our ultimate aim should be to be more accurate and more up to date than any other source doctors have access to. It is editing by doctors, and other health professionals that will have to overcome any deficiencies. Some way of controlling clickby vandalize is needed.
Fred
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.
Thomas Dalton wrote:
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.
_
Touche! :-DDD
Yours,
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen
On 29/05/2009, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen cimonavaro@gmail.com wrote:
Thomas Dalton wrote:
And my grandmother is 100 years old and has smoked 40 a day.
_
Touche! :-DDD
And more remarkably she even survived 8 years of the wikipedia, that well-known deadly website, but only because it was suitably censored of course.
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen