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Marc K. Siegel is an American physician, clinical professor of medicine at NYU Langone Medical Center, author, and contributor to The Hill, The Wall Street Journal, Slate, Fox News, and member of the board of contributors at USA Today.
Nicole Saphier. Nicole Berardoni Saphier (born January 26, 1982) is an American medical journalist, radiologist, and writer. She is the director of breast imaging at Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) Monmouth, New Jersey. [2] She is well known for providing her opinions as a contributor on Fox News, Fox Business, and MSNBC.
A medical encyclopedia provides valuable health information, tools for managing your health, and support to those who seek information. Works of encyclopedic scope aim to convey the important accumulated knowledge for their subject domain, such as an encyclopaedia of medicine.
As one of the most commonly read online sources of medical information, Wikipedia is an influential public health platform. Its medical content, community, collaborations and challenges have been evolving since its creation in 2001, and engagement by the medical community is vital for ensuring its accuracy and completeness.
- Thomas Shafee, Gwinyai Masukume, Lisa Kipersztok, Diptanshu Das, Mikael Häggström, James Heilman
- 2017
Feb 19, 2015 · The review included wiki sites, accessible and operating, having a topic relevant for clinical medicine, targeting physicians or medical students. Wikis were described according to their purposes, platform, management, information framework, contributions, content, and activity. Purposes were classified as “encyclopedic” or “non ...
- Alexandre Brulet, Guy Llorca, Laurent Letrilliart
- 10.2196/jmir.3574
- 2015
- J Med Internet Res. 2015 Feb; 17(2): e48.
Apr 8, 2014 · Regardless of the dubious quality of Wikipedia, it persists as a popular source of health information, even for doctors. As of January 2014 there were 26 000 articles in Wikipedia covering health topics including medical conditions, drugs, procedures, and diseases.
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Jan 31, 2011 · This paper, written by members of the WikiProject Medicine, discusses the intricacies, strengths, and weaknesses of Wikipedia as a source of health information and compares it with other medical wikis. Medical professionals, their societies, patient groups, and institutions can help improve Wikipedia’s health-related entries.
