[WikiEN-l] How's our coverage of medications?

[Jay Litwyn]

A reason _is_ why prescription medication needs a professional signature, 
and I would like to think that expert reviews of our documentation are 
available. As long as the rest of us take out the more obvious garbage, I 
think it can happen.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thomas Dalton" <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>
To: "English Wikipedia" <wikien-l at lists.wikimedia.org>
Sent: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 6:23 AM
Subject: Re: [WikiEN-l] How's our coverage of medications?


> 2008/11/25 David Gerard <dgerard at gmail.com>:
>> 2008/11/25 Thomas Dalton <thomas.dalton at gmail.com>:
>>
>>> News just in: People that self-medicate based on what they've read in
>>> an encyclopaedia sometimes get it wrong.
>>
>>
>> That said, I frequently look up medications in Wikipedia, applying of
>> course my "this is not reliable but it may be useful" filter. I do
>> look for stuff like side-effect lists in the article and official
>> patient information sheets in the external links.
>
> Of course, Wikipedia is a very useful resource, you just need to know
> what you should and shouldn't use it for. Getting a general idea of
> what the drug is and finding links to more reliable resources is an
> excellent use for it, using it to decide whether or not to take a
> given drug is not a good use for it - that is a good use of a doctor
> or pharmacist.
>
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