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

[Jussi-Ville Heiskanen]

Thomas Dalton wrote:
> 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.
>
> _
Touche!  :-DDD


Yours,

Jussi-Ville Heiskanen