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A number of the oldest of the old pages listed on Special:Ancientpages are obscure diseases. It would be great if some of these could be dealt with by being categorized. Listed below are some of the oldest. - SimonP 17:13, Nov 24, 2004 (UTC)
I've been moving articles from Category:Medicine to the appropriate subcategories, but there are a lot of articles and some help would be appreciated. In general, medical articles are categorised in two types categories: by the medical specialism they belong in (e.g. Category:Pulmonology) and by their etiology (e.g. Category:Autoimmune diseases and/or Category:Eponymous diseases). JFW | T@lk 22:35, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)
gedday all, hope all you northerners are keeping warm and hope all is well. Erich 04:57, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Geez guys, it's boringly quiet here. I've noticed that the turnover rate of doctors here is fairly high. Has anyone seen User:Kd4ttc lately?
Anyway, please read Talk:Deaf and Talk:Models of deafness and shudder. JFW | T@lk 00:16, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)
dude! you're a fanatic!! good on you! I'm not sure if I can cope much more with deafness!! One of my colleagues just pointed me at the Australian Medical Council website - where they have a mock exam. After 50 questions (takes about 20min) you get a break down of your performance.
I gotta confess I was a bit anxious doing the test but was relieved to obtain the giddying ranking of 'satisfactory' (for the record I scored: 39/50 Mastery: 12/15) apparently I guess better than I thought!
go on give it a go and fess up your score! Erich 14:16, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Total Correct: 32/50; Mastery Correct: 12/15; Performance: Satisfactory I did it in 14 minutes, but I plead a whole lotta years since I had to think about old folks and pregnant women. Not one single question about endocrine or metabolic diseases! alteripse 02:50, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)
yep it's definitely an exam for the jack of all trades. were you happy that the question on the astmatic kid had a single correct answer? I felt agrieved about getting that one wrong - given the paucity of detail in the question. go on JFW... 'fess up: how'd you go? Erich 13:15, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)
I think I got that one right but I can't remember the choices. alteripse 14:34, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Template:PMID was unnecessary. The Wiki now recognises PMID codes and automatically creates a link, much like ISBN codes. Please disregard the template and simply use PMID 4957203 (see, no template!) JFW | T@lk 23:31, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)
geez that is cool! when did they do that? (hey jfd are you going to take the test?? ) Erich 12:50, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Template:PMID is proposed to be deleted - Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion#Template:PMID Petersam 21:18, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Hi. While going through the old pages above listed by SimonP, I wondered whether articles on ... arghh... diseases affecting the nervous system should go under what I thought sounded right (and what I started doing) Category:Neurologic disorders or whether, as some have already done, put them in Category:Neurology. I was figuring that "Neurologic disorders" would fit as a subcategory of Category:Diseases but that "Neurology" would not because it's also the study of normal neural tissue function. What's the consensus view here? Alex.tan 05:02, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Hepatotoxicity and neurotoxicity were extant, but today I finally started nephrotoxicity. Could all of you kindly add the drugs you know, and the mechanism? It is still very short. JFW | T@lk 22:56, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)
this is in regard to the listing of Category:Disorders on the Categories for Deletion page
In the discussion, we have gotten to the point of considering whether a "disorder" is a "disease" or vice versa. One proposal on the table is to delete Category:Disorders (the actual action would be a renaming to a specific disorder type, but that is tantamount to a delete). Another proposal is to keep Category:Disorders and actually place Category:Diseases as a sub-category of it (the reasoning is found in the discussion linked from above). One question is whether something like "growth disorder" as a category can be considered a viable child of "diseases" as a category; if it cannot, then maintaining a "disorders" category is pretty much a requirement.
It would be helpful if one or another of you could step into the discussion and provide some input that might help a decision be made.
Thanks in advance. Courtland 03:51, 2005 Mar 9 (UTC)
In trying to cite my sources, I've found WikiBib very useful. However, that tool requires that you provide all the info (e.g. article title, journal, author, etc.), and I'm a bit too lazy for that. So I created a tool that can generate citations given just a PubMed ID, and I figured someone here might find it useful too. Cheers, David Iberri | Talk 05:56, Apr 22, 2005 (UTC)
Work on the wikiportal Medicine has begun. I have added categories and wikiprojects, for other things your help will be needed. -- Eleassar777 21:55, 6 May 2005 (UTC)
Hey docs, it's very very quiet here. Would all of you mind helping out with obesity? I'm trying to get this article to featured article status in the view of all the media attention on this problem.
Also, I'm tidying up Category:Medicine again. Some unscrupulous individuals think that they can categorise a medical article by slapping this category on it. Quod non. Please help sorting them out if you've got a minute. JFW | T@lk 07:58, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Hey Dudes! just saying hello... nice to drop by and see you two still soldering on! I'm now at a kid's hospital (for 3/12s anyway) and life remains busy. My gasboys project is doing reasonably well and I'm still trying to encourage my colleagues to take an interest in wiki's. best wishes to all
Erich 15:54, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I propose using an infobox on pages for diseases and disorders. Here is a mockup I've come up with: Template:DiseaseDisorder_infobox. An example of how this would look is available here. -- Arcadian 00:37, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
What if we redesigned it for unequivocal codes & terms such as ICD9, DSM IV, OMIM number, defective gene, defective enzyme, causal organism? Many diseases would have an association with more than 1 item in some of the fields (e.g., more than 1 OMIM number or infectious agent). We could list up to 5 of each, and if more are applicable, the box would say "multiple, see article". I am relatively lukewarm about this because I am realizing that most of the disease articles I have written have multiple genes or enzymes involved. OK forget it. I do agree entirely with you that there is no value to the boxes as offered with a few arbitrary signs and symptoms. Nice try by Arcadian; give him credit for effort anyway. alteripse 04:28, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Are parent and children some type of technical database terms describing a hierarchy? Explain a little what you mean? alteripse 05:00, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Per the above, I've added MeSH and OMIM. -- Arcadian 11:23, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Haven't heard any feedback for a while -- any other changes that people want to the template before I start putting it on some of the pages? -- Arcadian 19:35, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
We are more dubious than ungrateful and don't want you to waste your efforts if we end up not being able to use the boxes without introducing errors. Why don't you put a couple of your proposed boxes on a couple of hematology or endocrinology articles (look at the ones JFW and I have been working on) and let us see if they might be applicable before you do a whole lot? alteripse 19:42, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Well, I don't want to put more time into building the disease infoboxes if JFW is just going to revert them again as he did earlier this week, so I'd rather find out beforehand if they're okay before I invest the time. When he performed his reversions, he asked that I come to this page and get a consensus before proceeding, so that's what I'm doing here. To help facilitate consensus, I have removed everything but ICD from the initial Template:DiseaseDisorder_infobox. -- Arcadian 20:42, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Evening chaps, just happened across this page and thought I'd say what a good idea I think the infobox is, and wondering if any of you would care to revisit it after a break of a few months? FWIW, I think the inclusion of OMIM & MeSH links but be quite sensible, as it would allow users to cross-over into those two databases for further research. Also, I've just added the UK's Read codes in a similar format to the ICD-10 page, as I thought if the info box were to go ahead it might be sensible to include all widely used classification standards (though that page might need a bit of work...). I look forward to further discussion! James Bedford 00:09, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
I'm trying to bring cancer to featured article status. Could you all have a look and improve what is necessary? JFW | T@lk 09:23, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Nice article! I contributed a bit more. alteripse 13:36, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I just "completed" (nothing is ever complete here) a major rewrite of a previously really crappy article and would be grateful for medical peer review of hypoglycemia. I am working on diabetic hypoglycemia and congenital hyperinsulinism. thanks alteripse 04:24, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Being new to wiki and having an intested in medicine, I was delighted to see that this project a) existed and b) was reasonably active. I am a SHO in general medicine from Scotland and will be attempting to add my two-penneth to some articles, review stubs and generally help out. There seems to be a lot of activity from a select few. I hope that to be of use and also hope that you will help me in this new adventure. I'll be attempting to coerse some of my colleagues to get involved. If there is somewhere particular to start, mention it - if not I'll just take a look through the top priority page and see what the best use of my time will be. drjermy 14:25, 13 July 2005 (BST)
Hi all, I am PhatRita, a medical student. I have been following this project recently with interest. I think the same format and organistion could be applied with great effect to subjects on preclinical medicine such as human anatomy and physiology. The pages there are a mess. They face several problems which include:
Just take a look at the human physiology page to see what I mean.
The project could provide:
What do you think? Please mail me with suggestions and interest thanks
PhatRita 12:02, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
Sure, welcome, and have at it! When it's really bad, you can really make it better. I've been splitting my toil between clinical and a few biochemistry/physiology topics, as well as lounging about the ref desk. alteripse 00:34, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
I warmly greet these ideas and will surely contribute sooner rather than later. This fortnight collaboration should also be mentioned at the Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Medicine.
As there was talk about anatomy, I would specifically like to point out that it would be very appreciated if Latin redirects were created to the relevant topics. The same could possibly apply also to other topics. You know, it is often quite difficult for us non-native English medicine students to figure out English names. --
Eleassar
my talk
11:33, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
I think the articles
immunosuppression and
immunosuppressive drug should be merged into a new one called "immunosuppressive therapy" (currently a redirect) or perhaps even simply to "immunosuppression" (but I'm afraid it wouldn't be enough balanced then). Otherwise "immunosuppression" won't develop. Any thoughts? --
Eleassar
my talk
11:33, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
The article H5N1 has been listed to be improved on Wikipedia:This week's improvement drive. You can add your vote there if you would like to support the article.-- Fenice 06:42, 4 August 2005 (UTC) Fenice 06:29, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
Achromatopsia currently redirects to Maskun, however, I was wondering if anyone would mind if I switched the redirect in the other direction. In Google, "Achromatopsia" gets about 20,700 hits and "Maskun" gets about 20,500 (but the vast majority appear to be Icelandic webpages or things unrelated to abnormal cone function). In PubMed, "Achromatopsia" gets 2,854 hits whereas "Maskun" gets only 1 (one). Please let me know if there are objections to switching the redirect. Edwardian 05:09, 5 August 2005 (UTC)
Hi, I might be writing this in the wrong place, completely new @ WP and haven't really got a hold of it yet. I'm a doctor specializing in Intensive Care/Disaster medicine with special interest in Trauma Surgery. Therefor, naturally, I'd like to contribute in these specific areas. Looking at the traumatology page, there is a chapter on some half New age, half alternative medicine thing, could you please take a look at this? I really don't know how to split an article but feel strongly that that part should not be there! Also, is this the place to discuss all issues/questions in the WP medical community? Lastly (sorry for grouping question), where can I read about the legal implications of what I might write here @ WP?-- Johan M 08:13, 6 August 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for the help and the information! After finishing working on my new apartment I will take a big bite at rewriting the traumatology page!-- Johan M 18:19, 6 August 2005 (UTC)
Of course, considering where my thumbs are placed, I expect to put up some nice pictures of selfinflicted injuries, maybe a table of what kind of injuries could be associated to what tools!? :-) -- Johan M 01:13, 7 August 2005 (UTC)
I would also be interested in contributing to Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology. I am a consultant orthopaedic surgeon and editor of Orthopaedic Web Links If David Ruben is acting as overall editor for orthopaedic surgery perhaps he can give me some direction. I have added a couple of comments to the talk sections of Traumatology and Orthopaedic Surgery but haven't quite got all the wiki conventions and customs straightened out. I am giving a lecture at UBC (Vancouver) next week about Internet activity for orthopaedic surgeons. Do you want me to direct them your way?-- Mylesclough 06:55, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
Category:Medicine has been flooded with irrelevant stuff, e.g. poultry viruses. Could anyone help me depopulating it? JFW | T@lk 01:19, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
Yeah, or even better finding a more appropriate category. JFW | T@lk 01:45, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
I'm trying to get Asthma promoted to FA status. Please visit the nomination and help improve the article, if you are interested. — Knowledge Seeker দ 06:44, August 26, 2005 (UTC)
Please beware, some character is editing Alzheimer/cholesterol/statin-related articles to reflect some fringe POV that cholesterol deficiency causes AD. Please revert on sight. 195.10.45.152 11:17, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
I have been taking a whack at epilepsy and some related pages lately. I welcome your feedback or edits! By the way, how come I'm the only American doctor here? - Ikkyu2 10:38, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
Just discovered Wikipedia and the medical part of it. Have been adding categories to userpages of those suspected of being doctors or students. Should I have forgotten any please leave a category on your/their page. Here are the ones already guilty of being a doctor or student.
Furthermore I found some pages ( Hypermagnesemia, Hypomagnesemia, Paracentesis, Pleural effusion, Pulmonary edema, Thoracentesis) that need extra work. Presently I will redo these and hope they will be more up to standard.
On these pages ( Acute respiratory distress syndrome, Chest tube, Pleural effusion, Pneumothorax, Pulmonary edema, Thoracentesis) I would like to insert pictures but I am not sure if the ones I have are allowed. I have some nice ones from the net or out of medical journals. Maybe some of you might help. -- Nomen Nescio 18:16, August 29, 2005 (UTC)
Nrets and I have spent a lot of time on the cerebellum article. It went to peer-review without much action. It's now up as a FAC. It would be great if some docs could head over and critique the work of a neuroscience grad student and offer their opinions. :) Semiconscious ( talk · home) 03:25, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
Done. In fact, probably overdone. - Ikkyu2 06:40, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
Hi. I got into this argument with User:Tarnas who is insisting that manual lymph drainage actually works, or rather, that there is evidence supporting it. I found a Cochrane review article that says quite simply that there is no evidence it provides a benefit over bandaging. He's not a medico and has criticised my quoting of the Cochrane article on his scanning of the abstract... I would appreciate it if someone helps me explain Cochrane reviews to him ... in words other than just mine. Thanks in advance. Alex.tan 15:10, September 1, 2005 (UTC)
Thank you to all who worked on it. About time medicine gets some more representation! — Knowledge Seeker দ 04:07, September 5, 2005 (UTC)
I have some lofty ideas for new medicine subprojects, but I am unsure where to set them up. One is to revamp the " medical article workshop" page as discussed on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Clinical medicine/Collaboration. Another is to implement something like what is being discussed at Wikipedia talk:Medicine Collaboration of the Week#Systematic covarage of topics. The question is, should I do it here or at a new Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine? My first inclination is to do it here, but I would want to significantly redo the project page and perhaps some of the other pages, and other users might prefer this project the way it is and won't appreciate me messing it all up. Also, neither of these idease are limited to clinical medicine; they would include preclinical medicine too. The problem, though, with making a parent WikiProject is that it would just add more complexity that might be unnecessary. In any case I have no desire to modify things like the template or infoboxes and such; I am interested in coordinating work and highlighting areas for improvement and such. Any thoughts? — Knowledge Seeker দ 07:34, September 5, 2005 (UTC)
The need to patrol medical articles is again emphasised. Have a look on Talk:Myocardial infarction. A well-meaning chap who thinks ouabain will cure myocardial infarction tries to push a link to his website. The danger of this is the pseudoscience dressed up as scientific opinion. Please be vigilant, all. JFW | T@lk 12:14, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
This is not the first time I've had trouble with Arcadian's infoboxes. He has been inserting these into medical articles without little discussion with the members of this Wikiproject, and although the effort is laudable in itself I've found many inconsistencies and problems.
A recent discussion concerns ataxia. Arcadian inserted a box here, as ICD10 has a "category R" for symptoms not otherwise classified (NOS). I think the presence of a box on a "symptom" page creates massive confusion, and am against its use. What do the others think of this? JFW | T@lk 20:39, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
Several forms of Ataxia are listed in ICD-10 as "Diseases of the nervous system". [1]. Also, ataxia on its own is listed in ICD-10 under "Symptoms and signs involving the nervous and musculoskeletal systems". [2]. You said that I recreated the DiseaseDisorder infobox, but if you read the talk page you would have seen that I created another template called "SignSymptom infobox" to address your concern. Please tell me what you feel was so inaccurate about what I added that you had to revert it without going to the talk page first. -- Arcadian 21:06, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
I'm not sure why anyone thinks ICD-9 and ICD-10 codes are useful information to include. They're a means of coding billing records rather than a classification designed to enhance understanding of pathophysiology. Putting them in a box unduly emphasizes the trivial. - Nunh-huh 02:06, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
While reading up for an article, I came across an obit which says that he died after a prolonged illness due to ulzim semi paralysis. Google is completely silent about this disease. Is there really such a disease or could it be a typo ? Tia, Tintin 04:51, 12 September 2005 (UTC)
Ulzim = Alzheim! Of course! Why didn't we think of that? alteripse 10:45, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
Hello, Please notice this project. I hope that the List of publications in medicine will be adopted by the clinical medicine project. Thanks, APH 06:34, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
See Talk:Cerebrovascular accident#CVA should redirect to stroke. I'm undecided. — Knowledge Seeker দ 07:43, 24 September 2005 (UTC)
I thought some of you might be interested in knowing that Allopathic medicine appears to have been nominated for AFD, although I'm not sure it appears on the main AFD page. Edwardian 04:57, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
Dear Doctors, I wonder if anyone here would be interested in checking out the Pox party article. User:SoothingR has turned the 2-liner into a useful stub, but I thought it could use some professional attention. I hope no one is actually hosting such parties. Thanks. -- PFHLai 14:55, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
What about adding 'natural history'? atleast in nephrology it makes sense (i.e something like minimal change disease will eventually remit even without treatment, whereas FSGS will not). Potential cons: less significance in other areas/fields and i am not sure it will make sense to lay readers. Hswapnil 18:18, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
In case you're interested. — Knowledge Seeker দ 06:13, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
Have finished this article. Maybe one of you might look at it and see if anything needs to be corrected. TIA -- Nomen Nescio 18:00, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
Congratulations to all those who helped our collaboration achieve its second featured article! They did an amazing job (I didn't help at all, but the article turned out just fine without me). We're working on Pneumonia right now—feel free to pitch in. Hopefully we can nominate it for FAC soon (and I hope my workload eases up and I'll be able to spend more time on the wiki). — Knowledge Seeker দ 04:45, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
Yes, I know it is a video game article. But would a kind soul in medical field please copyedit real life comparison section? Thanks. SYSS Mouse 13:46, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
A user ( Ombudsman ( talk · contribs)) has been pushing an external link that blames vaccination for basically everything on a few pages. This has now gone for RFC: Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Ombudsman. Kindly have a look, please. After all, shaken baby syndrome is really the result of vaccination. Or is it? JFW | T@lk 22:58, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
Someone has uploaded a large number of pages containing nursing care plans. THB ( talk · contribs) kindly moved them into one category, namely Category:Nursing care plans. I have looked at a number of these pages, and feel that most of their material is redundant.
Could you docs please comment on Category_talk:Nursing care plans what you think? I'm in doubt whether to merge the contents and delete the page titles, or whether to send the whole lot to AFD. JFW | T@lk 14:33, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
For those who might be interested, I've put up an RFC at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Maths, natural science, and technology asking if the POV flag in the American Medical Association article should stay or go. Does the article reflect a bias critical of the AMA or not? Thanks. Edwardian 05:54, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
I'm debating with a new contributor whether medical ultrasonography should be renamed to sonography. Please offer your views on Talk:Medical ultrasonography. JFW | T@lk 01:59, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
Hello, I joined WikiProject Clinical medicine to work on articles related to pregnancy. This is a tricky area because it encompasses developmental biology, obstetrics, and childbirth. I’ve developed a preliminary plan of attack. Is anyone working on OB/GYN articles? I’ve already found several duplicate articles that need to be merged. Will bring these and other articles to the group for discussion as needed.-- FloNight 17:26, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
Some of the articles I have worked on (see my user page for a list) are at least partly gynecologic or neonatal. Don't wreak major surgery on these without discussion, but let me know if you want support for your work on the many gyn, obstetric, and perinatal articles that need help or reorganization. We need an expert in those areas. alteripse 19:25, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
I just found this disclaimer. I guess it has been around for awhile but its use doesn't appear to be widespread. Does anyone think this, or some form of it, should be added to appropriate articles? If so, would it be better to make a "Medical disclaimer" tag to be added to appropriate articles instead? Edwardian 00:38, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
It's been brought up at FAC for pneumonia that we currently don't interface with those among us who treat animals. Is there a precedent that we've established that I just don't know? I would be in favor of splitting any medical article into a (human) and (non-human) article with a possible disambiguation at the top if there is an existing article. Any thoughts? InvictaHOG 11:50, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
You want to split H5N1 into one for humans and one for nonhumans? Or just the symptoms and treatments? How about taking it one article at a time, each on its own merits? I've found it best to let articles organically grow and split off other articles as needed. Things like wiki-articles that evolve over time seem to work best that way. WAS 4.250 22:55, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
The Wiki is sorely lacking psychiatrists. This is a sorry time for psychiatry. Some delightful anti-psychiatry-affiliated editors have marched onto the Wiki with a big box of POV and are now unpacking their ware at various mental health-related articles.
Being the busybody that I am I have asked Francesca Allan of MindFreedomBC ( talk · contribs) to be more NPOV in her work on psychiatry, clinical depression, E. Fuller Torrey, chemical imbalance theory, bipolar disorder and electroconvulsive therapy. I may need some help to lick these articles into a semblance of shape, as presently some of them are in a deplorable state.
Does any of you know a knowledgeable psychiatrist who would be interested in working on the Wiki?
PS has anyone followed the incident surrounding Simon Wessely? Jimbo intervened. JFW | T@lk 00:26, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
Multiple sclerosis. — Knowledge Seeker দ 02:39, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
I've done some work on hepatitis C. Could you all have a look to see if anything significant has been left out? We may be able to make this an MCOTW at some point, but images will be needed. JFW | T@lk 22:12, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
We do need to cover cirrhosis and HCC, but there should not be too much duplication with the HCC/UGIB/ESLD pages unless these are issues that are peculiar for HCC cirrhosis. I should have mentioned liver biopsy as a tool to assess the degree of cirrhosis, and α-FP and annual CTs to assess for HCC. JFW | T@lk 09:56, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
I added new section on pregnancy and breastfeeding. I think we need a preventative section with specific statements about prevention. I've started working on it. Also, the final draft of the lead paragraph will need more plain english sentences.-- FloNight 11:04, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
Moved from Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine — Knowledge Seeker দ 04:31, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
As discussed at Wikipedia talk:Medicine Collaboration of the Week#Systematic coverage of topics, it would be nice to have a place we can identify articles that need work, even though they may not be selected for the Collaboration. As I think I mentioned before here, I have begun work to try to organize this at Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine. I don't know the best place for this, but since I'd like it to include both clinical and pre-clinical topics, it didn't make sense to place it at either one, nor does it really fit at WP:MCOTW either. The design and inspiration come from Wikipedia:WikiProject Anti-war#List of pages covered by the projectand Wikipedia:WikiProject_Chemicals/Organization. Wikipedia:WikiProject Clinical medicine/top priority and Wikipedia:WikiProject Clinical medicine/categorizations will be useful in providing inspiration. I welcome any comments, suggestions, or assistance at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine. — Knowledge Seeker দ 04:36, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
I wrote Seldinger technique. Comments please, and links from other articles... JFW | T@lk 11:10, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
I'd say central venous catheter. Will also remove the confusion with the red line on the London Underground map. JFW | T@lk 08:15, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
Question crossposted from Wikipedia:Reference desk/Science.
What is the technique of checking for brain trauma through eye movement properly called? Thanks in advance.
Circeus 21:14, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
As far as I know, it's usually just described. Something along the lines of "checking extraocular movements." Typically, "extraocular movements intact" or EOMI if normal. Checking the pupils is separate, of course. InvictaHOG 21:17, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
I was wondering how eponymous diseases should be named. Is it with or without 's after the name of the doctor/describer. E.g. for an article I created recently, would the correct name be Farber disease or Farber's disease? At Category:Eponymous diseases and List of eponymous diseases both seem to be used. What is most correct here? -- WS 23:28, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
I have been busy adding a lot of new articles the last few days. Please have a look and improve them where needed. But what most of them lack most is incoming links. So if you know any article that should link to them, please add links. The articles: Cholesteryl ester storage disease, Farber disease, Wolman disease, Lipid storage disorder, Pachydermoperiostosis, Pachygyria, Prostatic acid phosphatase, Bronchopulmonary dysplasia, Body donation, Widened mediastinum, Bifurcated rib, Neurolysis, Glossopharyngeal breathing, AIDS dementia complex, Annular pancreas, Congenital afibrinogenemia, Accessory pancreas, Pancreas divisum, Drion's pill, Megarectum -- WS 23:28, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
Following a suggestion from User:InvictaHOG, I split off Prostate cancer#Stages to a new article, Prostate cancer staging. As far as I know, this is the first Wikipedia staging article and I wasn't entirely sure how to structure it, how much detail to include, and so on. And of course, writing for a lay audience is a bit challenging. If anyone has a free minute, could you take a look at it and suggest/make any changes? Ideas for a different title are also welcome. — Knowledge Seeker দ 01:06, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
I've put up cancer for peer review. JFW | T@lk 21:36, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
Pneumonia's on the Main Page. Way to improve the visibility and quality of medical articles on Wikipedia! — Knowledge Seeker দ 00:53, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
I'm having a rather tiresome discussion with an editor who feels we should be touting recent research findings prominently in the intro. Please have a look. I've asked for an RFC as well. JFW | T@lk 02:11, 6 December 2005 (UTC) obesity (making the path from here easier)
Would somebody mind taking a look at this edit to Lactic acidosis? It may be legitimate, but it's a big change, and it's by an anon with only 3 edits, and I'm not really familiar enough with the subject to evaluate the new information. -- Arcadian 05:06, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
Nature recently did a comparison of the accuracy of Wikipedia and Encyclopedia Britannica's science articles. The following is a list of articles in Wikipedia (on biological/medical subjects) which they examined, with the number of factual errors, omissions or misleading statements they noted.
Of course, we don't know what version they examined, so there could be more errors or less errors at present. It might be nice to look and see if we can catch some. (They haven't published the specifics, though I gather we've requested them from them. It would be interesting to know what were counted as errors, so if you find one, you might want to discuss it on the article's talk page. - Nunh-huh 00:13, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
The working page for corrections is Wikipedia:External_peer_review/Nature_December_2005/Errors. Several of the as-yet-uncorrected articles are medical. Please help by reviewing the articles in areas in which you have expertise. - Nunh-huh 18:22, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
Can someone in the know take a good look at this? Some of it is quite good, but it needs some work. I have hacked off some of the more POV/ irrelevant bits, but the introductory paragraph especially needs a good edit. At the moment it goes on about PFI hospitals and GPs being private practitioners. Interesting, but not part of the intro. Could do much better. Jellytussle 06:34, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi - I'm posting this here because Wikipedia:WikiProject Aids appears to be defunct. Is there any reason I shouldn't move all the antiretroviral drugs from Category:HIV/AIDS into a new subcategory, Category:HIV/AIDS medications or some such? The main category looks a bit large. Thanks - ← Hob 06:57, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
Have a look at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Medical controversies, please. JFW | T@lk 14:54, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
I want to create a hospital infobox, but I don't have the wiki-expertise to do it properly. Is there anyone here willing to go in on the project? I already have a basic format:
Ideas? Kerowyn 23:03, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
I think the Wikipedia:Userboxes are rather silly, and yet they're strangely amusing as well. On a whim, I created {{ user physician}} which you may place on your user page if you so desire. It will automatically place you in Category:Physician Wikipedians as well. — Knowledge Seeker দ 05:04, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
Thanks KS, it's stunning. JFW | T@lk 13:43, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
And you got it right to just have the one snake. Kd4ttc 01:43, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
I'm starting to get intractable urticaria from the long lists of "famous patients" in many health-related articles. On ovarian cancer the editors were even using horrible terminology like "stage IV disease, presently battling cancer" etc etc. We've had a succesful deletion of a list of famous pneumonia patients split off from pneumonia. I think we need to discuss a guideline for inclusion, possibly in the form of Wikipedia:Notable patients.
If a page on a person mentions his disease history or cause of death, there is no immediate need to cross-reference this to the relevant disease page. Only under very strict conditions should someone be included in a "list of notable cases":
Please tell me what you all think, and we can start up the guideline. It can then be used to clobber crufty editors who insist on including their icon's ingrown toenail in the relevant article. JFW | T@lk 13:43, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
List of famous Parkinson's disease patients was split off from the PD page and is now up for deletion. It's another test case. JFW | T@lk 15:06, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
There are some pretty famous patients, though. Lou Gehrig and Henrietta Lacks. There is also a role for famous people bringing diseases to national attention. Lou G was one. The husband of Katie Couric was another (whose death prompted a number of patients to see me after his wife, Katie, graciously had her colonoscopy done on TV). Kd4ttc 01:38, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
Inspired by JFW's proposal above, I'd like to propose that we define standards for what constitutes Original research when adding external links to medical articles. Here's a draft -- For a link to be added to a medical article, it must meet at least one of the following three criteria:
Carcinogenesis is under an orthomolecular attack. JFW | T@lk 16:52, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
The section on microevolution is back. It is now one of the largest sections on the page. If I delete it , someone will just revert the page. These folks do not appear amenable to reasoned discussion. The carcinogenesis article will have no credibility until it is stable, and scientifically rigorous. Solution? Jellytussle 16:22, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
We need some admin assistance on the carcinogenesis article, and the microevolutionary model of cancer article. Is a self-published book really appropriate for science/medicine articles? The three editors who repeatedly insert these assertions are very well versed with this "theory". I suspect they are the authors, perhaps even the same person. -- DocJohnny 19:39, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
TONS is back.
Jellytussle
02:04, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
Anyone fancy an interesting read? Stealth-adapted viruses. JFW | T@lk 09:13, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
A lot of medical pages incorporate text from the genetic home reference website [4]. One of these, PPOX has been tagged as a copyright violation, because the terms and conditions [5] are not compatible with wikipedia. The copyright link at the bottom of the website [6] however clearly states that all information on the website is in the public domain. Which one is right and what should we do with this? -- WS 22:24, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
Ombudsman ( talk · contribs) has created a new toy, called Category:Medical controversies. I have created a WP:CFD for it at CFD/Medical controversies. Please offer your opinion. JFW | T@lk 19:59, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
Wait for the trolling to begin. Then we will see whether it's truly from hell. JFW | T@lk 00:41, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
This single user is the most tenacious anti-vaccine editor on Wikipedia, and has filled many articles with his choice anti-science on the subject of vaccination. Everything sounds nice and NPOV, but when the matter is investigated one encounters dangerous lunacy, notoriety and dishonesty. Viera Scheibner, for example, was touted (by another editor) as a scientist with scientific arguments against vaccination until it turned out she had not published more than one paper on a medical topic, was the recipient of the Australian Skeptics' "Bent Spoon Award" and was the subject of an article in Vaccine detailing her views and modus operandi. This has to stop. JFW | T@lk 08:52, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
FYI, I've added optional parameters in Template:DiseaseDisorder infobox for image and caption. An example of it in use is at Laryngomalacia. I don't think this is too controversial, but I wanted to keep you in the loop. -- Arcadian 16:05, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
It seems that the articles do exist to populate this category. I found articles for Monomelic amyotrophy, Primary lateral sclerosis, Post polio syndrome, and Infantile spinal muscular atrophy. Perhaps we should reverse the CFD petition.-- DocJohnny 00:08, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
Experimental cancer treatment This page is badly defined with a mix of genuinely experimental treatments (with explanations of variable quality) and some complete quackery. The quote "The entries listed below vary between theoretical therapies and treatments that will most likely become standard procedures within the next few years." is certainly not justified. There is no mention of formal cancer trial structure etc. Needs a good prune, or to have the good bits merged, or to be deleted altogether.
Tumor Some useful stuff here but really does not need to be separate from Cancer. Jellytussle 00:18, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
Afib has been on awhile — I intend to work on it when I get time and get it to featured article status. However, the next month is going to be busy for me and it looks like work has stalled, so I was thinking others may want to move on to the next topic (AIDS has a lot of votes!) InvictaHOG 19:17, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
I am moving Template:DiseaseDisorder infobox to Template:Infobox Disease because that is the naming convention used ( Wikipedia:Infobox templates). I am also updating a number of other formatting problems, such as failure to use proper row headers (see Wikipedia:Accessibility). I was accused in a recent edit summary by User:Arcadian of acting "unilaterally", though this is a wiki and he should get over it, so I'm posting here. -- Netoholic @ 17:52, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
It was the move I was referring to. JFW | T@lk 22:13, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I created a handy bookmarklet that will make a wikipedia reference when used on a pubmed abstract page, using Diberri's pmid converter. Add a bookmark to your bookmark toolbar with the following url:
javascript:(function(){ var e,s; IB=1; function isDigit(c) { return (%220%22 <= c && c <= %229%22) } L = location.href; LL =L.length; for (e=LL-1; e>=0; --e) if (isDigit(L.charAt(e))) { for(s=e-1; s>=0; --s) if (!isDigit(L.charAt(s))) break; break; } ++s; if (e<0) return; if ((L.substring(s-10,s))=='list_uids=')pmid = L.substring(s,e+1); w=open(' http://diberri.dyndns.org/pubmed.html?pmid=' + pmid,'add','width=800,height=300,scrollbars,resizable'); })();
When clicked while on a pubmed abstract page, it will open a new window with the properly formatted wikipedia citation for the article. Let me know if it works and if you think it is useful. I only tested it on firefox, I don't know if it works on internet explorer. -- WS 10:08, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
Cool ! Yes works in I.E.:
One critism of the PMID converter - the title of the article is enclosed in single square brackets '[....]' - is this correct ? David Ruben Talk 20:15, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
I probably will put up an improved version here tomorrow that should work better than the current one. -- WS 00:30, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
This one should work better (thanks to David Iberri):
javascript:(function(){var url = location.href;var pmid = url.match(/list_uids\=(\d+)/);if( pmid ) w=open(' http://diberri.dyndns.org/wikipedia/cite/?type=pmid&id=' + pmid[1],'add','width=800,height=300,scrollbars,resizable');})();
One small problem: on firefox on windows, the window pops up in the background, if anyone knows how to solve that... -- WS 12:55, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
I have nominated this page for deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Microevolutionary model of cancer. It is orthomolecular pseudoscience. JFW | T@lk 15:38, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
I thought there might be some people in this project with an interest in Médecins Sans Frontières, so I thought I'd stop by and say I just submitted the article for peer review. I'm trying to improve it to FA status. -- CDN99 19:36, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
We still need to create articles for 5619 diseases! :-) See the brand new Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Missing diseases -- WS 16:26, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
Do you want us to delete from that list anything which has obviously been covered in an appropriate section already? Jellytussle 18:54, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
Some are actually quite some fun to create. Ever heard about the blue diaper syndrome? :-) -- WS 01:45, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
I will be in Los Angeles, USA for the DDW meeting in May, 2006. Kd4ttc 23:31, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
I'm not a clinician, and not familiar with typical use of these terms so I was unsure if I should put a merge tag on these articles. If merging the two is not advisable, hypoxemia could do with some cleanup. -- Uthbrian ( talk) 10:31, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
Can I be a bit of a nit-picker? I agree that the terms are synonymous to some extent. I do not have a medical dictionary at hand, and I would be grateful if someone could check this, but in think there is an important distinction which is clinically relevant. Hypoxaemia is a generalised lack of oxygen in the blood, which can be caused by number of pathologies, as listed on the relevant page. Hypoxia, in my book, is more about a regional lack of oxygen. As such, hypoxia can happily exist without hypoxaemia. Some examples, and why they are relevant:
Sorry to be a pedant. Very happy to be contradicted. Jellytussle 04:44, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
Oh I can identify with pedantry or I wouldn't be here, but we more commonly say a person is hypoxic than hypoxemic, don't we, and mean the same thing? But I admit, you have identified a couple more contexts in which the terms are not equivalent. Do you think they should be kept as two separate articles? I will also admit I havent even looked at the contents. alteripse 05:11, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
Hypoxemia is when blood oxygen is low. Hypoxia is when tissue oxygen is low. Hypoxic is a term meaning less oxygen than should be there. I'd vote to put stuff under hypoxia, with hypoxemia being when blood is hypoxic. Kd4ttc 02:08, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
I'm not sure if any physicians have taken a look at this article. I've noticed that it has been accumulating external links of varying quality, but I've been hesitant to remove any, given the nature of the article. Read [7] for a more balanced review; unfortunately, I couldn't find anything at Pubmed. -- Uthbrian ( talk) 00:56, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
Anyone who has an opinion on whether or not medical resident work hours should be merged with residency (medicine), state it here. Ombudsman will make a big fuss after I merge it (just like he did after I merged Medical residency with residency(medicine)), so I want a consensus here to refer to. The consensus on Talk:Medical resident work hours was 4 merge v 2 don't merge, but I'd like some more opinions from those who didn't vote. -- CDN99 16:43, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
I think I've already voted, but this article was created by Ombudsman to further his doctor-bashing agenda. A good stab at NPOV may be necessary. JFW | T@lk 17:48, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
Disagree with Merge - Both are reasonably long articles although I agree (JFW) that both could do with editing-down and rewording of their current content. However both need further expanding/boadening:
Coronary care unit - please comment and expand. JFW | T@lk 17:46, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
Similarly, Intra-aortic balloon pump presented for your pleasure.-- DocJohnny 07:06, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
This page is getting to be huge. Kerowyn 08:47, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
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A number of the oldest of the old pages listed on Special:Ancientpages are obscure diseases. It would be great if some of these could be dealt with by being categorized. Listed below are some of the oldest. - SimonP 17:13, Nov 24, 2004 (UTC)
I've been moving articles from Category:Medicine to the appropriate subcategories, but there are a lot of articles and some help would be appreciated. In general, medical articles are categorised in two types categories: by the medical specialism they belong in (e.g. Category:Pulmonology) and by their etiology (e.g. Category:Autoimmune diseases and/or Category:Eponymous diseases). JFW | T@lk 22:35, 8 Dec 2004 (UTC)
gedday all, hope all you northerners are keeping warm and hope all is well. Erich 04:57, 27 Dec 2004 (UTC)
Geez guys, it's boringly quiet here. I've noticed that the turnover rate of doctors here is fairly high. Has anyone seen User:Kd4ttc lately?
Anyway, please read Talk:Deaf and Talk:Models of deafness and shudder. JFW | T@lk 00:16, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)
dude! you're a fanatic!! good on you! I'm not sure if I can cope much more with deafness!! One of my colleagues just pointed me at the Australian Medical Council website - where they have a mock exam. After 50 questions (takes about 20min) you get a break down of your performance.
I gotta confess I was a bit anxious doing the test but was relieved to obtain the giddying ranking of 'satisfactory' (for the record I scored: 39/50 Mastery: 12/15) apparently I guess better than I thought!
go on give it a go and fess up your score! Erich 14:16, 13 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Total Correct: 32/50; Mastery Correct: 12/15; Performance: Satisfactory I did it in 14 minutes, but I plead a whole lotta years since I had to think about old folks and pregnant women. Not one single question about endocrine or metabolic diseases! alteripse 02:50, 14 Jan 2005 (UTC)
yep it's definitely an exam for the jack of all trades. were you happy that the question on the astmatic kid had a single correct answer? I felt agrieved about getting that one wrong - given the paucity of detail in the question. go on JFW... 'fess up: how'd you go? Erich 13:15, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)
I think I got that one right but I can't remember the choices. alteripse 14:34, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)
Template:PMID was unnecessary. The Wiki now recognises PMID codes and automatically creates a link, much like ISBN codes. Please disregard the template and simply use PMID 4957203 (see, no template!) JFW | T@lk 23:31, 31 Jan 2005 (UTC)
geez that is cool! when did they do that? (hey jfd are you going to take the test?? ) Erich 12:50, 3 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Template:PMID is proposed to be deleted - Wikipedia:Templates_for_deletion#Template:PMID Petersam 21:18, 8 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Hi. While going through the old pages above listed by SimonP, I wondered whether articles on ... arghh... diseases affecting the nervous system should go under what I thought sounded right (and what I started doing) Category:Neurologic disorders or whether, as some have already done, put them in Category:Neurology. I was figuring that "Neurologic disorders" would fit as a subcategory of Category:Diseases but that "Neurology" would not because it's also the study of normal neural tissue function. What's the consensus view here? Alex.tan 05:02, 28 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Hepatotoxicity and neurotoxicity were extant, but today I finally started nephrotoxicity. Could all of you kindly add the drugs you know, and the mechanism? It is still very short. JFW | T@lk 22:56, 8 Mar 2005 (UTC)
this is in regard to the listing of Category:Disorders on the Categories for Deletion page
In the discussion, we have gotten to the point of considering whether a "disorder" is a "disease" or vice versa. One proposal on the table is to delete Category:Disorders (the actual action would be a renaming to a specific disorder type, but that is tantamount to a delete). Another proposal is to keep Category:Disorders and actually place Category:Diseases as a sub-category of it (the reasoning is found in the discussion linked from above). One question is whether something like "growth disorder" as a category can be considered a viable child of "diseases" as a category; if it cannot, then maintaining a "disorders" category is pretty much a requirement.
It would be helpful if one or another of you could step into the discussion and provide some input that might help a decision be made.
Thanks in advance. Courtland 03:51, 2005 Mar 9 (UTC)
In trying to cite my sources, I've found WikiBib very useful. However, that tool requires that you provide all the info (e.g. article title, journal, author, etc.), and I'm a bit too lazy for that. So I created a tool that can generate citations given just a PubMed ID, and I figured someone here might find it useful too. Cheers, David Iberri | Talk 05:56, Apr 22, 2005 (UTC)
Work on the wikiportal Medicine has begun. I have added categories and wikiprojects, for other things your help will be needed. -- Eleassar777 21:55, 6 May 2005 (UTC)
Hey docs, it's very very quiet here. Would all of you mind helping out with obesity? I'm trying to get this article to featured article status in the view of all the media attention on this problem.
Also, I'm tidying up Category:Medicine again. Some unscrupulous individuals think that they can categorise a medical article by slapping this category on it. Quod non. Please help sorting them out if you've got a minute. JFW | T@lk 07:58, 5 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Hey Dudes! just saying hello... nice to drop by and see you two still soldering on! I'm now at a kid's hospital (for 3/12s anyway) and life remains busy. My gasboys project is doing reasonably well and I'm still trying to encourage my colleagues to take an interest in wiki's. best wishes to all
Erich 15:54, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I propose using an infobox on pages for diseases and disorders. Here is a mockup I've come up with: Template:DiseaseDisorder_infobox. An example of how this would look is available here. -- Arcadian 00:37, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
What if we redesigned it for unequivocal codes & terms such as ICD9, DSM IV, OMIM number, defective gene, defective enzyme, causal organism? Many diseases would have an association with more than 1 item in some of the fields (e.g., more than 1 OMIM number or infectious agent). We could list up to 5 of each, and if more are applicable, the box would say "multiple, see article". I am relatively lukewarm about this because I am realizing that most of the disease articles I have written have multiple genes or enzymes involved. OK forget it. I do agree entirely with you that there is no value to the boxes as offered with a few arbitrary signs and symptoms. Nice try by Arcadian; give him credit for effort anyway. alteripse 04:28, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Are parent and children some type of technical database terms describing a hierarchy? Explain a little what you mean? alteripse 05:00, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Per the above, I've added MeSH and OMIM. -- Arcadian 11:23, 6 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Haven't heard any feedback for a while -- any other changes that people want to the template before I start putting it on some of the pages? -- Arcadian 19:35, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
We are more dubious than ungrateful and don't want you to waste your efforts if we end up not being able to use the boxes without introducing errors. Why don't you put a couple of your proposed boxes on a couple of hematology or endocrinology articles (look at the ones JFW and I have been working on) and let us see if they might be applicable before you do a whole lot? alteripse 19:42, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Well, I don't want to put more time into building the disease infoboxes if JFW is just going to revert them again as he did earlier this week, so I'd rather find out beforehand if they're okay before I invest the time. When he performed his reversions, he asked that I come to this page and get a consensus before proceeding, so that's what I'm doing here. To help facilitate consensus, I have removed everything but ICD from the initial Template:DiseaseDisorder_infobox. -- Arcadian 20:42, 9 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Evening chaps, just happened across this page and thought I'd say what a good idea I think the infobox is, and wondering if any of you would care to revisit it after a break of a few months? FWIW, I think the inclusion of OMIM & MeSH links but be quite sensible, as it would allow users to cross-over into those two databases for further research. Also, I've just added the UK's Read codes in a similar format to the ICD-10 page, as I thought if the info box were to go ahead it might be sensible to include all widely used classification standards (though that page might need a bit of work...). I look forward to further discussion! James Bedford 00:09, 10 November 2005 (UTC)
I'm trying to bring cancer to featured article status. Could you all have a look and improve what is necessary? JFW | T@lk 09:23, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Nice article! I contributed a bit more. alteripse 13:36, 15 Jun 2005 (UTC)
I just "completed" (nothing is ever complete here) a major rewrite of a previously really crappy article and would be grateful for medical peer review of hypoglycemia. I am working on diabetic hypoglycemia and congenital hyperinsulinism. thanks alteripse 04:24, 19 Jun 2005 (UTC)
Being new to wiki and having an intested in medicine, I was delighted to see that this project a) existed and b) was reasonably active. I am a SHO in general medicine from Scotland and will be attempting to add my two-penneth to some articles, review stubs and generally help out. There seems to be a lot of activity from a select few. I hope that to be of use and also hope that you will help me in this new adventure. I'll be attempting to coerse some of my colleagues to get involved. If there is somewhere particular to start, mention it - if not I'll just take a look through the top priority page and see what the best use of my time will be. drjermy 14:25, 13 July 2005 (BST)
Hi all, I am PhatRita, a medical student. I have been following this project recently with interest. I think the same format and organistion could be applied with great effect to subjects on preclinical medicine such as human anatomy and physiology. The pages there are a mess. They face several problems which include:
Just take a look at the human physiology page to see what I mean.
The project could provide:
What do you think? Please mail me with suggestions and interest thanks
PhatRita 12:02, 22 July 2005 (UTC)
Sure, welcome, and have at it! When it's really bad, you can really make it better. I've been splitting my toil between clinical and a few biochemistry/physiology topics, as well as lounging about the ref desk. alteripse 00:34, 25 July 2005 (UTC)
I warmly greet these ideas and will surely contribute sooner rather than later. This fortnight collaboration should also be mentioned at the Wikipedia:Wikiportal/Medicine.
As there was talk about anatomy, I would specifically like to point out that it would be very appreciated if Latin redirects were created to the relevant topics. The same could possibly apply also to other topics. You know, it is often quite difficult for us non-native English medicine students to figure out English names. --
Eleassar
my talk
11:33, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
I think the articles
immunosuppression and
immunosuppressive drug should be merged into a new one called "immunosuppressive therapy" (currently a redirect) or perhaps even simply to "immunosuppression" (but I'm afraid it wouldn't be enough balanced then). Otherwise "immunosuppression" won't develop. Any thoughts? --
Eleassar
my talk
11:33, 27 July 2005 (UTC)
The article H5N1 has been listed to be improved on Wikipedia:This week's improvement drive. You can add your vote there if you would like to support the article.-- Fenice 06:42, 4 August 2005 (UTC) Fenice 06:29, 4 August 2005 (UTC)
Achromatopsia currently redirects to Maskun, however, I was wondering if anyone would mind if I switched the redirect in the other direction. In Google, "Achromatopsia" gets about 20,700 hits and "Maskun" gets about 20,500 (but the vast majority appear to be Icelandic webpages or things unrelated to abnormal cone function). In PubMed, "Achromatopsia" gets 2,854 hits whereas "Maskun" gets only 1 (one). Please let me know if there are objections to switching the redirect. Edwardian 05:09, 5 August 2005 (UTC)
Hi, I might be writing this in the wrong place, completely new @ WP and haven't really got a hold of it yet. I'm a doctor specializing in Intensive Care/Disaster medicine with special interest in Trauma Surgery. Therefor, naturally, I'd like to contribute in these specific areas. Looking at the traumatology page, there is a chapter on some half New age, half alternative medicine thing, could you please take a look at this? I really don't know how to split an article but feel strongly that that part should not be there! Also, is this the place to discuss all issues/questions in the WP medical community? Lastly (sorry for grouping question), where can I read about the legal implications of what I might write here @ WP?-- Johan M 08:13, 6 August 2005 (UTC)
Thanks for the help and the information! After finishing working on my new apartment I will take a big bite at rewriting the traumatology page!-- Johan M 18:19, 6 August 2005 (UTC)
Of course, considering where my thumbs are placed, I expect to put up some nice pictures of selfinflicted injuries, maybe a table of what kind of injuries could be associated to what tools!? :-) -- Johan M 01:13, 7 August 2005 (UTC)
I would also be interested in contributing to Orthopaedic Surgery and Traumatology. I am a consultant orthopaedic surgeon and editor of Orthopaedic Web Links If David Ruben is acting as overall editor for orthopaedic surgery perhaps he can give me some direction. I have added a couple of comments to the talk sections of Traumatology and Orthopaedic Surgery but haven't quite got all the wiki conventions and customs straightened out. I am giving a lecture at UBC (Vancouver) next week about Internet activity for orthopaedic surgeons. Do you want me to direct them your way?-- Mylesclough 06:55, 21 September 2005 (UTC)
Category:Medicine has been flooded with irrelevant stuff, e.g. poultry viruses. Could anyone help me depopulating it? JFW | T@lk 01:19, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
Yeah, or even better finding a more appropriate category. JFW | T@lk 01:45, 25 August 2005 (UTC)
I'm trying to get Asthma promoted to FA status. Please visit the nomination and help improve the article, if you are interested. — Knowledge Seeker দ 06:44, August 26, 2005 (UTC)
Please beware, some character is editing Alzheimer/cholesterol/statin-related articles to reflect some fringe POV that cholesterol deficiency causes AD. Please revert on sight. 195.10.45.152 11:17, 26 August 2005 (UTC)
I have been taking a whack at epilepsy and some related pages lately. I welcome your feedback or edits! By the way, how come I'm the only American doctor here? - Ikkyu2 10:38, 29 August 2005 (UTC)
Just discovered Wikipedia and the medical part of it. Have been adding categories to userpages of those suspected of being doctors or students. Should I have forgotten any please leave a category on your/their page. Here are the ones already guilty of being a doctor or student.
Furthermore I found some pages ( Hypermagnesemia, Hypomagnesemia, Paracentesis, Pleural effusion, Pulmonary edema, Thoracentesis) that need extra work. Presently I will redo these and hope they will be more up to standard.
On these pages ( Acute respiratory distress syndrome, Chest tube, Pleural effusion, Pneumothorax, Pulmonary edema, Thoracentesis) I would like to insert pictures but I am not sure if the ones I have are allowed. I have some nice ones from the net or out of medical journals. Maybe some of you might help. -- Nomen Nescio 18:16, August 29, 2005 (UTC)
Nrets and I have spent a lot of time on the cerebellum article. It went to peer-review without much action. It's now up as a FAC. It would be great if some docs could head over and critique the work of a neuroscience grad student and offer their opinions. :) Semiconscious ( talk · home) 03:25, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
Done. In fact, probably overdone. - Ikkyu2 06:40, 30 August 2005 (UTC)
Hi. I got into this argument with User:Tarnas who is insisting that manual lymph drainage actually works, or rather, that there is evidence supporting it. I found a Cochrane review article that says quite simply that there is no evidence it provides a benefit over bandaging. He's not a medico and has criticised my quoting of the Cochrane article on his scanning of the abstract... I would appreciate it if someone helps me explain Cochrane reviews to him ... in words other than just mine. Thanks in advance. Alex.tan 15:10, September 1, 2005 (UTC)
Thank you to all who worked on it. About time medicine gets some more representation! — Knowledge Seeker দ 04:07, September 5, 2005 (UTC)
I have some lofty ideas for new medicine subprojects, but I am unsure where to set them up. One is to revamp the " medical article workshop" page as discussed on Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Clinical medicine/Collaboration. Another is to implement something like what is being discussed at Wikipedia talk:Medicine Collaboration of the Week#Systematic covarage of topics. The question is, should I do it here or at a new Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine? My first inclination is to do it here, but I would want to significantly redo the project page and perhaps some of the other pages, and other users might prefer this project the way it is and won't appreciate me messing it all up. Also, neither of these idease are limited to clinical medicine; they would include preclinical medicine too. The problem, though, with making a parent WikiProject is that it would just add more complexity that might be unnecessary. In any case I have no desire to modify things like the template or infoboxes and such; I am interested in coordinating work and highlighting areas for improvement and such. Any thoughts? — Knowledge Seeker দ 07:34, September 5, 2005 (UTC)
The need to patrol medical articles is again emphasised. Have a look on Talk:Myocardial infarction. A well-meaning chap who thinks ouabain will cure myocardial infarction tries to push a link to his website. The danger of this is the pseudoscience dressed up as scientific opinion. Please be vigilant, all. JFW | T@lk 12:14, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
This is not the first time I've had trouble with Arcadian's infoboxes. He has been inserting these into medical articles without little discussion with the members of this Wikiproject, and although the effort is laudable in itself I've found many inconsistencies and problems.
A recent discussion concerns ataxia. Arcadian inserted a box here, as ICD10 has a "category R" for symptoms not otherwise classified (NOS). I think the presence of a box on a "symptom" page creates massive confusion, and am against its use. What do the others think of this? JFW | T@lk 20:39, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
Several forms of Ataxia are listed in ICD-10 as "Diseases of the nervous system". [1]. Also, ataxia on its own is listed in ICD-10 under "Symptoms and signs involving the nervous and musculoskeletal systems". [2]. You said that I recreated the DiseaseDisorder infobox, but if you read the talk page you would have seen that I created another template called "SignSymptom infobox" to address your concern. Please tell me what you feel was so inaccurate about what I added that you had to revert it without going to the talk page first. -- Arcadian 21:06, 5 September 2005 (UTC)
I'm not sure why anyone thinks ICD-9 and ICD-10 codes are useful information to include. They're a means of coding billing records rather than a classification designed to enhance understanding of pathophysiology. Putting them in a box unduly emphasizes the trivial. - Nunh-huh 02:06, 6 September 2005 (UTC)
While reading up for an article, I came across an obit which says that he died after a prolonged illness due to ulzim semi paralysis. Google is completely silent about this disease. Is there really such a disease or could it be a typo ? Tia, Tintin 04:51, 12 September 2005 (UTC)
Ulzim = Alzheim! Of course! Why didn't we think of that? alteripse 10:45, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
Hello, Please notice this project. I hope that the List of publications in medicine will be adopted by the clinical medicine project. Thanks, APH 06:34, 13 September 2005 (UTC)
See Talk:Cerebrovascular accident#CVA should redirect to stroke. I'm undecided. — Knowledge Seeker দ 07:43, 24 September 2005 (UTC)
I thought some of you might be interested in knowing that Allopathic medicine appears to have been nominated for AFD, although I'm not sure it appears on the main AFD page. Edwardian 04:57, 29 September 2005 (UTC)
Dear Doctors, I wonder if anyone here would be interested in checking out the Pox party article. User:SoothingR has turned the 2-liner into a useful stub, but I thought it could use some professional attention. I hope no one is actually hosting such parties. Thanks. -- PFHLai 14:55, 1 October 2005 (UTC)
What about adding 'natural history'? atleast in nephrology it makes sense (i.e something like minimal change disease will eventually remit even without treatment, whereas FSGS will not). Potential cons: less significance in other areas/fields and i am not sure it will make sense to lay readers. Hswapnil 18:18, 3 October 2005 (UTC)
In case you're interested. — Knowledge Seeker দ 06:13, 5 October 2005 (UTC)
Have finished this article. Maybe one of you might look at it and see if anything needs to be corrected. TIA -- Nomen Nescio 18:00, 19 October 2005 (UTC)
Congratulations to all those who helped our collaboration achieve its second featured article! They did an amazing job (I didn't help at all, but the article turned out just fine without me). We're working on Pneumonia right now—feel free to pitch in. Hopefully we can nominate it for FAC soon (and I hope my workload eases up and I'll be able to spend more time on the wiki). — Knowledge Seeker দ 04:45, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
Yes, I know it is a video game article. But would a kind soul in medical field please copyedit real life comparison section? Thanks. SYSS Mouse 13:46, 20 October 2005 (UTC)
A user ( Ombudsman ( talk · contribs)) has been pushing an external link that blames vaccination for basically everything on a few pages. This has now gone for RFC: Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Ombudsman. Kindly have a look, please. After all, shaken baby syndrome is really the result of vaccination. Or is it? JFW | T@lk 22:58, 2 November 2005 (UTC)
Someone has uploaded a large number of pages containing nursing care plans. THB ( talk · contribs) kindly moved them into one category, namely Category:Nursing care plans. I have looked at a number of these pages, and feel that most of their material is redundant.
Could you docs please comment on Category_talk:Nursing care plans what you think? I'm in doubt whether to merge the contents and delete the page titles, or whether to send the whole lot to AFD. JFW | T@lk 14:33, 3 November 2005 (UTC)
For those who might be interested, I've put up an RFC at Wikipedia:Requests for comment/Maths, natural science, and technology asking if the POV flag in the American Medical Association article should stay or go. Does the article reflect a bias critical of the AMA or not? Thanks. Edwardian 05:54, 4 November 2005 (UTC)
I'm debating with a new contributor whether medical ultrasonography should be renamed to sonography. Please offer your views on Talk:Medical ultrasonography. JFW | T@lk 01:59, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
Hello, I joined WikiProject Clinical medicine to work on articles related to pregnancy. This is a tricky area because it encompasses developmental biology, obstetrics, and childbirth. I’ve developed a preliminary plan of attack. Is anyone working on OB/GYN articles? I’ve already found several duplicate articles that need to be merged. Will bring these and other articles to the group for discussion as needed.-- FloNight 17:26, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
Some of the articles I have worked on (see my user page for a list) are at least partly gynecologic or neonatal. Don't wreak major surgery on these without discussion, but let me know if you want support for your work on the many gyn, obstetric, and perinatal articles that need help or reorganization. We need an expert in those areas. alteripse 19:25, 13 November 2005 (UTC)
I just found this disclaimer. I guess it has been around for awhile but its use doesn't appear to be widespread. Does anyone think this, or some form of it, should be added to appropriate articles? If so, would it be better to make a "Medical disclaimer" tag to be added to appropriate articles instead? Edwardian 00:38, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
It's been brought up at FAC for pneumonia that we currently don't interface with those among us who treat animals. Is there a precedent that we've established that I just don't know? I would be in favor of splitting any medical article into a (human) and (non-human) article with a possible disambiguation at the top if there is an existing article. Any thoughts? InvictaHOG 11:50, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
You want to split H5N1 into one for humans and one for nonhumans? Or just the symptoms and treatments? How about taking it one article at a time, each on its own merits? I've found it best to let articles organically grow and split off other articles as needed. Things like wiki-articles that evolve over time seem to work best that way. WAS 4.250 22:55, 15 November 2005 (UTC)
The Wiki is sorely lacking psychiatrists. This is a sorry time for psychiatry. Some delightful anti-psychiatry-affiliated editors have marched onto the Wiki with a big box of POV and are now unpacking their ware at various mental health-related articles.
Being the busybody that I am I have asked Francesca Allan of MindFreedomBC ( talk · contribs) to be more NPOV in her work on psychiatry, clinical depression, E. Fuller Torrey, chemical imbalance theory, bipolar disorder and electroconvulsive therapy. I may need some help to lick these articles into a semblance of shape, as presently some of them are in a deplorable state.
Does any of you know a knowledgeable psychiatrist who would be interested in working on the Wiki?
PS has anyone followed the incident surrounding Simon Wessely? Jimbo intervened. JFW | T@lk 00:26, 16 November 2005 (UTC)
Multiple sclerosis. — Knowledge Seeker দ 02:39, 18 November 2005 (UTC)
I've done some work on hepatitis C. Could you all have a look to see if anything significant has been left out? We may be able to make this an MCOTW at some point, but images will be needed. JFW | T@lk 22:12, 19 November 2005 (UTC)
We do need to cover cirrhosis and HCC, but there should not be too much duplication with the HCC/UGIB/ESLD pages unless these are issues that are peculiar for HCC cirrhosis. I should have mentioned liver biopsy as a tool to assess the degree of cirrhosis, and α-FP and annual CTs to assess for HCC. JFW | T@lk 09:56, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
I added new section on pregnancy and breastfeeding. I think we need a preventative section with specific statements about prevention. I've started working on it. Also, the final draft of the lead paragraph will need more plain english sentences.-- FloNight 11:04, 20 November 2005 (UTC)
Moved from Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine — Knowledge Seeker দ 04:31, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
As discussed at Wikipedia talk:Medicine Collaboration of the Week#Systematic coverage of topics, it would be nice to have a place we can identify articles that need work, even though they may not be selected for the Collaboration. As I think I mentioned before here, I have begun work to try to organize this at Wikipedia:WikiProject Medicine. I don't know the best place for this, but since I'd like it to include both clinical and pre-clinical topics, it didn't make sense to place it at either one, nor does it really fit at WP:MCOTW either. The design and inspiration come from Wikipedia:WikiProject Anti-war#List of pages covered by the projectand Wikipedia:WikiProject_Chemicals/Organization. Wikipedia:WikiProject Clinical medicine/top priority and Wikipedia:WikiProject Clinical medicine/categorizations will be useful in providing inspiration. I welcome any comments, suggestions, or assistance at Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Medicine. — Knowledge Seeker দ 04:36, 21 November 2005 (UTC)
I wrote Seldinger technique. Comments please, and links from other articles... JFW | T@lk 11:10, 27 November 2005 (UTC)
I'd say central venous catheter. Will also remove the confusion with the red line on the London Underground map. JFW | T@lk 08:15, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
Question crossposted from Wikipedia:Reference desk/Science.
What is the technique of checking for brain trauma through eye movement properly called? Thanks in advance.
Circeus 21:14, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
As far as I know, it's usually just described. Something along the lines of "checking extraocular movements." Typically, "extraocular movements intact" or EOMI if normal. Checking the pupils is separate, of course. InvictaHOG 21:17, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
I was wondering how eponymous diseases should be named. Is it with or without 's after the name of the doctor/describer. E.g. for an article I created recently, would the correct name be Farber disease or Farber's disease? At Category:Eponymous diseases and List of eponymous diseases both seem to be used. What is most correct here? -- WS 23:28, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
I have been busy adding a lot of new articles the last few days. Please have a look and improve them where needed. But what most of them lack most is incoming links. So if you know any article that should link to them, please add links. The articles: Cholesteryl ester storage disease, Farber disease, Wolman disease, Lipid storage disorder, Pachydermoperiostosis, Pachygyria, Prostatic acid phosphatase, Bronchopulmonary dysplasia, Body donation, Widened mediastinum, Bifurcated rib, Neurolysis, Glossopharyngeal breathing, AIDS dementia complex, Annular pancreas, Congenital afibrinogenemia, Accessory pancreas, Pancreas divisum, Drion's pill, Megarectum -- WS 23:28, 28 November 2005 (UTC)
Following a suggestion from User:InvictaHOG, I split off Prostate cancer#Stages to a new article, Prostate cancer staging. As far as I know, this is the first Wikipedia staging article and I wasn't entirely sure how to structure it, how much detail to include, and so on. And of course, writing for a lay audience is a bit challenging. If anyone has a free minute, could you take a look at it and suggest/make any changes? Ideas for a different title are also welcome. — Knowledge Seeker দ 01:06, 29 November 2005 (UTC)
I've put up cancer for peer review. JFW | T@lk 21:36, 3 December 2005 (UTC)
Pneumonia's on the Main Page. Way to improve the visibility and quality of medical articles on Wikipedia! — Knowledge Seeker দ 00:53, 4 December 2005 (UTC)
I'm having a rather tiresome discussion with an editor who feels we should be touting recent research findings prominently in the intro. Please have a look. I've asked for an RFC as well. JFW | T@lk 02:11, 6 December 2005 (UTC) obesity (making the path from here easier)
Would somebody mind taking a look at this edit to Lactic acidosis? It may be legitimate, but it's a big change, and it's by an anon with only 3 edits, and I'm not really familiar enough with the subject to evaluate the new information. -- Arcadian 05:06, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
Nature recently did a comparison of the accuracy of Wikipedia and Encyclopedia Britannica's science articles. The following is a list of articles in Wikipedia (on biological/medical subjects) which they examined, with the number of factual errors, omissions or misleading statements they noted.
Of course, we don't know what version they examined, so there could be more errors or less errors at present. It might be nice to look and see if we can catch some. (They haven't published the specifics, though I gather we've requested them from them. It would be interesting to know what were counted as errors, so if you find one, you might want to discuss it on the article's talk page. - Nunh-huh 00:13, 15 December 2005 (UTC)
The working page for corrections is Wikipedia:External_peer_review/Nature_December_2005/Errors. Several of the as-yet-uncorrected articles are medical. Please help by reviewing the articles in areas in which you have expertise. - Nunh-huh 18:22, 23 December 2005 (UTC)
Can someone in the know take a good look at this? Some of it is quite good, but it needs some work. I have hacked off some of the more POV/ irrelevant bits, but the introductory paragraph especially needs a good edit. At the moment it goes on about PFI hospitals and GPs being private practitioners. Interesting, but not part of the intro. Could do much better. Jellytussle 06:34, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
Hi - I'm posting this here because Wikipedia:WikiProject Aids appears to be defunct. Is there any reason I shouldn't move all the antiretroviral drugs from Category:HIV/AIDS into a new subcategory, Category:HIV/AIDS medications or some such? The main category looks a bit large. Thanks - ← Hob 06:57, 20 December 2005 (UTC)
Have a look at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Medical controversies, please. JFW | T@lk 14:54, 21 December 2005 (UTC)
I want to create a hospital infobox, but I don't have the wiki-expertise to do it properly. Is there anyone here willing to go in on the project? I already have a basic format:
Ideas? Kerowyn 23:03, 25 December 2005 (UTC)
I think the Wikipedia:Userboxes are rather silly, and yet they're strangely amusing as well. On a whim, I created {{ user physician}} which you may place on your user page if you so desire. It will automatically place you in Category:Physician Wikipedians as well. — Knowledge Seeker দ 05:04, 28 December 2005 (UTC)
Thanks KS, it's stunning. JFW | T@lk 13:43, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
And you got it right to just have the one snake. Kd4ttc 01:43, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
I'm starting to get intractable urticaria from the long lists of "famous patients" in many health-related articles. On ovarian cancer the editors were even using horrible terminology like "stage IV disease, presently battling cancer" etc etc. We've had a succesful deletion of a list of famous pneumonia patients split off from pneumonia. I think we need to discuss a guideline for inclusion, possibly in the form of Wikipedia:Notable patients.
If a page on a person mentions his disease history or cause of death, there is no immediate need to cross-reference this to the relevant disease page. Only under very strict conditions should someone be included in a "list of notable cases":
Please tell me what you all think, and we can start up the guideline. It can then be used to clobber crufty editors who insist on including their icon's ingrown toenail in the relevant article. JFW | T@lk 13:43, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
List of famous Parkinson's disease patients was split off from the PD page and is now up for deletion. It's another test case. JFW | T@lk 15:06, 30 December 2005 (UTC)
There are some pretty famous patients, though. Lou Gehrig and Henrietta Lacks. There is also a role for famous people bringing diseases to national attention. Lou G was one. The husband of Katie Couric was another (whose death prompted a number of patients to see me after his wife, Katie, graciously had her colonoscopy done on TV). Kd4ttc 01:38, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
Inspired by JFW's proposal above, I'd like to propose that we define standards for what constitutes Original research when adding external links to medical articles. Here's a draft -- For a link to be added to a medical article, it must meet at least one of the following three criteria:
Carcinogenesis is under an orthomolecular attack. JFW | T@lk 16:52, 29 December 2005 (UTC)
The section on microevolution is back. It is now one of the largest sections on the page. If I delete it , someone will just revert the page. These folks do not appear amenable to reasoned discussion. The carcinogenesis article will have no credibility until it is stable, and scientifically rigorous. Solution? Jellytussle 16:22, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
We need some admin assistance on the carcinogenesis article, and the microevolutionary model of cancer article. Is a self-published book really appropriate for science/medicine articles? The three editors who repeatedly insert these assertions are very well versed with this "theory". I suspect they are the authors, perhaps even the same person. -- DocJohnny 19:39, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
TONS is back.
Jellytussle
02:04, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
Anyone fancy an interesting read? Stealth-adapted viruses. JFW | T@lk 09:13, 1 January 2006 (UTC)
A lot of medical pages incorporate text from the genetic home reference website [4]. One of these, PPOX has been tagged as a copyright violation, because the terms and conditions [5] are not compatible with wikipedia. The copyright link at the bottom of the website [6] however clearly states that all information on the website is in the public domain. Which one is right and what should we do with this? -- WS 22:24, 2 January 2006 (UTC)
Ombudsman ( talk · contribs) has created a new toy, called Category:Medical controversies. I have created a WP:CFD for it at CFD/Medical controversies. Please offer your opinion. JFW | T@lk 19:59, 4 January 2006 (UTC)
Wait for the trolling to begin. Then we will see whether it's truly from hell. JFW | T@lk 00:41, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
This single user is the most tenacious anti-vaccine editor on Wikipedia, and has filled many articles with his choice anti-science on the subject of vaccination. Everything sounds nice and NPOV, but when the matter is investigated one encounters dangerous lunacy, notoriety and dishonesty. Viera Scheibner, for example, was touted (by another editor) as a scientist with scientific arguments against vaccination until it turned out she had not published more than one paper on a medical topic, was the recipient of the Australian Skeptics' "Bent Spoon Award" and was the subject of an article in Vaccine detailing her views and modus operandi. This has to stop. JFW | T@lk 08:52, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
FYI, I've added optional parameters in Template:DiseaseDisorder infobox for image and caption. An example of it in use is at Laryngomalacia. I don't think this is too controversial, but I wanted to keep you in the loop. -- Arcadian 16:05, 5 January 2006 (UTC)
It seems that the articles do exist to populate this category. I found articles for Monomelic amyotrophy, Primary lateral sclerosis, Post polio syndrome, and Infantile spinal muscular atrophy. Perhaps we should reverse the CFD petition.-- DocJohnny 00:08, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
Experimental cancer treatment This page is badly defined with a mix of genuinely experimental treatments (with explanations of variable quality) and some complete quackery. The quote "The entries listed below vary between theoretical therapies and treatments that will most likely become standard procedures within the next few years." is certainly not justified. There is no mention of formal cancer trial structure etc. Needs a good prune, or to have the good bits merged, or to be deleted altogether.
Tumor Some useful stuff here but really does not need to be separate from Cancer. Jellytussle 00:18, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
Afib has been on awhile — I intend to work on it when I get time and get it to featured article status. However, the next month is going to be busy for me and it looks like work has stalled, so I was thinking others may want to move on to the next topic (AIDS has a lot of votes!) InvictaHOG 19:17, 7 January 2006 (UTC)
I am moving Template:DiseaseDisorder infobox to Template:Infobox Disease because that is the naming convention used ( Wikipedia:Infobox templates). I am also updating a number of other formatting problems, such as failure to use proper row headers (see Wikipedia:Accessibility). I was accused in a recent edit summary by User:Arcadian of acting "unilaterally", though this is a wiki and he should get over it, so I'm posting here. -- Netoholic @ 17:52, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
It was the move I was referring to. JFW | T@lk 22:13, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
Hi, I created a handy bookmarklet that will make a wikipedia reference when used on a pubmed abstract page, using Diberri's pmid converter. Add a bookmark to your bookmark toolbar with the following url:
javascript:(function(){ var e,s; IB=1; function isDigit(c) { return (%220%22 <= c && c <= %229%22) } L = location.href; LL =L.length; for (e=LL-1; e>=0; --e) if (isDigit(L.charAt(e))) { for(s=e-1; s>=0; --s) if (!isDigit(L.charAt(s))) break; break; } ++s; if (e<0) return; if ((L.substring(s-10,s))=='list_uids=')pmid = L.substring(s,e+1); w=open(' http://diberri.dyndns.org/pubmed.html?pmid=' + pmid,'add','width=800,height=300,scrollbars,resizable'); })();
When clicked while on a pubmed abstract page, it will open a new window with the properly formatted wikipedia citation for the article. Let me know if it works and if you think it is useful. I only tested it on firefox, I don't know if it works on internet explorer. -- WS 10:08, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
Cool ! Yes works in I.E.:
One critism of the PMID converter - the title of the article is enclosed in single square brackets '[....]' - is this correct ? David Ruben Talk 20:15, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
I probably will put up an improved version here tomorrow that should work better than the current one. -- WS 00:30, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
This one should work better (thanks to David Iberri):
javascript:(function(){var url = location.href;var pmid = url.match(/list_uids\=(\d+)/);if( pmid ) w=open(' http://diberri.dyndns.org/wikipedia/cite/?type=pmid&id=' + pmid[1],'add','width=800,height=300,scrollbars,resizable');})();
One small problem: on firefox on windows, the window pops up in the background, if anyone knows how to solve that... -- WS 12:55, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
I have nominated this page for deletion at Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Microevolutionary model of cancer. It is orthomolecular pseudoscience. JFW | T@lk 15:38, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
I thought there might be some people in this project with an interest in Médecins Sans Frontières, so I thought I'd stop by and say I just submitted the article for peer review. I'm trying to improve it to FA status. -- CDN99 19:36, 12 January 2006 (UTC)
We still need to create articles for 5619 diseases! :-) See the brand new Wikipedia:WikiProject Missing encyclopedic articles/Missing diseases -- WS 16:26, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
Do you want us to delete from that list anything which has obviously been covered in an appropriate section already? Jellytussle 18:54, 13 January 2006 (UTC)
Some are actually quite some fun to create. Ever heard about the blue diaper syndrome? :-) -- WS 01:45, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
I will be in Los Angeles, USA for the DDW meeting in May, 2006. Kd4ttc 23:31, 14 January 2006 (UTC)
I'm not a clinician, and not familiar with typical use of these terms so I was unsure if I should put a merge tag on these articles. If merging the two is not advisable, hypoxemia could do with some cleanup. -- Uthbrian ( talk) 10:31, 15 January 2006 (UTC)
Can I be a bit of a nit-picker? I agree that the terms are synonymous to some extent. I do not have a medical dictionary at hand, and I would be grateful if someone could check this, but in think there is an important distinction which is clinically relevant. Hypoxaemia is a generalised lack of oxygen in the blood, which can be caused by number of pathologies, as listed on the relevant page. Hypoxia, in my book, is more about a regional lack of oxygen. As such, hypoxia can happily exist without hypoxaemia. Some examples, and why they are relevant:
Sorry to be a pedant. Very happy to be contradicted. Jellytussle 04:44, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
Oh I can identify with pedantry or I wouldn't be here, but we more commonly say a person is hypoxic than hypoxemic, don't we, and mean the same thing? But I admit, you have identified a couple more contexts in which the terms are not equivalent. Do you think they should be kept as two separate articles? I will also admit I havent even looked at the contents. alteripse 05:11, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
Hypoxemia is when blood oxygen is low. Hypoxia is when tissue oxygen is low. Hypoxic is a term meaning less oxygen than should be there. I'd vote to put stuff under hypoxia, with hypoxemia being when blood is hypoxic. Kd4ttc 02:08, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
I'm not sure if any physicians have taken a look at this article. I've noticed that it has been accumulating external links of varying quality, but I've been hesitant to remove any, given the nature of the article. Read [7] for a more balanced review; unfortunately, I couldn't find anything at Pubmed. -- Uthbrian ( talk) 00:56, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
Anyone who has an opinion on whether or not medical resident work hours should be merged with residency (medicine), state it here. Ombudsman will make a big fuss after I merge it (just like he did after I merged Medical residency with residency(medicine)), so I want a consensus here to refer to. The consensus on Talk:Medical resident work hours was 4 merge v 2 don't merge, but I'd like some more opinions from those who didn't vote. -- CDN99 16:43, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
I think I've already voted, but this article was created by Ombudsman to further his doctor-bashing agenda. A good stab at NPOV may be necessary. JFW | T@lk 17:48, 17 January 2006 (UTC)
Disagree with Merge - Both are reasonably long articles although I agree (JFW) that both could do with editing-down and rewording of their current content. However both need further expanding/boadening:
Coronary care unit - please comment and expand. JFW | T@lk 17:46, 18 January 2006 (UTC)
Similarly, Intra-aortic balloon pump presented for your pleasure.-- DocJohnny 07:06, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
This page is getting to be huge. Kerowyn 08:47, 19 January 2006 (UTC)
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