[WikiEN-l] Rx Dosage Instructions in Wikipedia

[MacGyverMagic/Mgm]

On 2/18/07, Bryan Derksen <bryan.derksen at shaw.ca> wrote:
>
> George Chriss wrote:
> > If the AMA does provide such recommendations.  Having a vandal change
> specific dosage amounts is a scary prospect, as some people may actually
> trust our information at face value.
>
> Seems to me that having people trust information from Wikipedia about
> drug dosages at face value _at all_ is the scary prospect. I wouldn't
> bake a cake using a recipe from Wikipedia without checking against
> outside sources first, whether the article's history showed vandalism or
> not. We already have medical disclaimers specifically intended to cover
> this, IMO we shouldn't have to go to great lengths to protect idiots
> against themselves.


 I wonder if you think the same thing when someone dies because they trusted
the info.
There's so many different ways to dose medicine that there's not one
all-inclusive dose.
If we can't include one reliable dose, we shouldn't include any at all.