On 1/7/08, Tony Sidaway tonysidaway@gmail.com wrote:
On 04/01/2008, David Gerard dgerard@gmail.com wrote:
"because it's getting me through med school" — Anon.
Am I the only one to find that just a little discomfiting?
When I first saw that, it conjured up for me a picture of a group of surgeons clustered around a wiki page panicking while on a table nearby a surgical nurse struggles with swabs to control a bleeding patient. On closer inspection, the wiki page says "YOU SUCK! LOL!"
Hate to be the cynic yet again, but my first impression was different though equally discomforting.
Could paid editing could actually be lucrative enough to cover tuition, textbooks, lab fees, room and board, food, even the average student's vodka intake? Unlikely, but I'd hesitate to say impossible.
—C.W.