Wikipedia talk:WikiProject Clinical medicine/Archive 3

message: Hi, I've just recently decided to become a participant of this project, and I was wondering what everyone's take on the WikiHealthShoppe idea was. I really think that the goals of this project are by far larger than the 'pedia can contain, and I believe that it needs another wiki to itself, to create a comprehensive medical database. Please give me some feedback. DryGrain 02:48, 15 May 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Hello 

message: I'm a medical student (almost finished, at last) who would like to contribute in the project. I have training in anesthesiology and intensive care medicine. I must say I'm quite confused with all the categorization issues I read about in this page, and the general nature of the 'WikiProject'... I'd appreciate if you could point me in the right direction (things to be done, and how to do them) so I can try and write something. In other words, is there anything I should do (categorization, linking) beside the normal Wiki edit stuff to add content to the project?
Thanks in advance for the info,
Aside 10:29, 2 Jun 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Introducing myself ([[User:Aside]])... 

message: A user, rather driven, Mr. Natural Health, has littered whole reams of Wikepedia with an irrelevant link to an alternative medicine page.  The page isn't specific to anything in any article is in.  Then there is a page with a discussion on arbitration and votes that are opaque in their meaning.  What's up here?  Steve Kd4ttc 04:40, 3 Jun 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Although I agree with the idea of achieving a balance between conventional and unconventional medicine in Wikipedia I protest against polluting medicine articles with irrelevant links and alternative medicine nav tables. I removed completely irrelevant alternative medicine linkage in List of medical symptoms. Kpjas ☤ 10:15, 3 Jun 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: What's with all these see alternative medicine links? 

message: I put quite a cool diagram I made up on the stomach page that I made.  Can people just give it the once to check it.<BR>
I'm gonna have a bit more time coming up (exams are nearly over), so if people want any other diagrams done, I'll see what I can do. Prisonblues
:Beautiful, Prisonblues. But... there is a page called gastric acid. Would you mind adding it there as well??? Is it "general" enough to remain on stomach? JFW | T@lk 19:37, 2 Jun 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Good points Stephen, but that's not my diagram, it's Statkit1's, we were talking about this diagram. --Prisonblues 07:27, 3 Jun 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Ah!  Oh that diagram is beautiful!  I used to lecture on GI physiology.  That is just a lovely diagram.  Nice work! Kd4ttc 16:15, 9 Jun 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: Great diagram - good work! My only criticism is that perhaps there should be a small key for what the abbreviations used are. Alex.tan 18:20, 9 Jun 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Diagrams 

message: Well, as MNH and consorts were not doing it, I did! I wrote Medicine#Criticism. Please fiddle around with this section, as I wrote it hurriedly and with a shocking lack of introspection. Ivan Illich does deserve a mention, Neil Postman possibly doesn't. JFW | T@lk 16:36, 9 Jun 2004 (UTC)
replies: text: great stuff! I've been holding off writing a similar blurb. Given your section a quick go over. We should also discuss issues of: expense, error and elitism... (mmm the three e's!). i deleted the 'harmless' comment as alternative cancer treatments are big earner for their proponents! Erich 18:17, 9 Jun 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Criticism

message: I find the navigation menu at the top of the clinical medicine project pages (including this one) was a little distracting, so I've moved the navigation to a Template:WPCM navigation, and have replaced the original navigation menu with . IMO, this improves aesthetics and readability. If no one objects I'll assume there's general agreement, and in celebration I'll go buy myself a pint :-) --Diberri | Talk 02:03, Jun 10, 2004 (UTC)
:I agree. nice! Erich 02:33, 10 Jun 2004 (UTC)
thread_title:  Navigating around the doctor's mess