[WikiEN-l] Docs look to Wikipedia for condition info: Manhattan Research

[Thomas Dalton]

2009/5/28 Jussi-Ville Heiskanen <cimonavaro at 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.