Thomas Dalton wrote: > 2009/5/26 <wjhon...@aol.com>: > >> Actually I think providing dosage information would *avoid* much more harm >> than it would cause. >> Most people use books on drugs to check up on their prescriptions and >> educate themselves. >> If the doctors mistakenly prescribed 200mg tablets when the standard dosage >> is 20mg, then I'm sure you'd want the person to be able to know that. >> > > I would hope the pharmacist that filled the prescription would spot > something like that. I'm not sure people second guessing their doctors > will have a net benefit... > >
Actually my life experience using wikipedia for self medication does not bear that out. There have been situtations where I was in dire straits, and without a doctor within easy reach, where simply consulting wikipedia provided me with the necessary information of which medicines I had been prescribed for completely different ailments, was a multipurpose drug workable in the situation I found myself. and that is a fact. I am sure there are phone-line services I could have consulted, but wikipedia worked ok. Yours, Jussi-Ville Heiskanen _______________________________________________ WikiEN-l mailing list WikiEN-l@lists.wikimedia.org To unsubscribe from this mailing list, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikien-l