Wikipedia For Medicine is The Future-Medscape
According to Peter Frishauf, founder of Medscape
"For readers, Wikipedia is a win. In traditional publishing, readers must wade through many articles on a subject, each written by a few experts, published at 1 moment in time. In Wikipedia you read 1 living article written by many, continually updated by many. Who needs 50 articles on avian flu when 1 will do? And Wikipedia content is often the best on the Web, which means the best anywhere. For writers, Wikipedia offers neither authorship, recognition, reward, nor punishment. Articles aren't indexed, but with Google and Yahoo!, who needs it? The motivation for writing is love of information and a desire to share it. I say a variant of Wikipedia for medicine is the future -- and it's good."
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A Pitch for the Wikipedia Concept
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Wikipedia For Medicine is The Future-Medscape
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Sumer Sethi
Unique blend of academic excellence and entrepreneurship, heading leading firms in India- Teleradiology Providers, pioneering company providing teleradiology services and DAMS (Delhi Academy of Medical Sciences) Premier test preparation institute in India for MD/MS/MCI preparation. He has also been an invited faculty member at various conferences, including Teleradiology in IRIA 2008 and 2011, Hospital Build Middle East, Congress of the Brain Tumor Radiology in Neuro-oncology Society. Dr. Sethi is Editor-in-Chief of Internet Journal of Radiology. He has a keen interest in Web 2.0 technologies and in maintaining his famous radiology blog, which has been featured in multiple international journals.
1 comment:
Hi,
I am a medical resident in Philadelphia with background in computers and I cannot agree more that wiki is the way to go for medicine. It is more important in areas such as medicine where there is so much variation in expert opinion to have an agreed upon middle ground and I believe wiki's tend to help arrive there with some limitations. I actually set up a wiki for this purpose with some others at www.wikimd.org and we have been working on creating a free medical encyclopedia.
Prab R Tumpati, MD
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