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Aug 21, 2009
This is Jason Shafrin at his blog:
Who would trust a user generated site like Wikipedia? The answer to this question, is doctors. According to a report in April by US healthcare consultancy Manhattan Research, fifty percent of U.S. doctors turn to Wikipedia for medical information.
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Helium
August 21st, 2009 at 12:55 pm
When I first began researching health information on the Internet, numerous public health experts (mainly physicians) worried that patients would rely on biased or inaccurate medical information found on the Internet. Upon closer inspection, doctors were mainly worried patients would come to office visits armed with print outs from medical web sites and time-consuming questions.
August 21st, 2009 at 2:42 pm
Actually, this result is kind of scary.
August 23rd, 2009 at 9:07 pm
Mr. Goodman,
I enjoyed your article “Explaining the Town-Hall Protests” which appeared in Friday’s Online WSJ. There is iron in what you say and peace in how you say it. Thank you. We appreciate your efforts. And keep up the good fight.
Joe Kidd and sons (16 and 14)
Lakeside, CA