User talk:Pdrowemd

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Again, welcome!  OrangeMarlin Talk• Contributions 14:48, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Herpes zoster

You made a few changes to the article changing the name of anti-viral drugs. Although you did correct the spelling to US versions, we actually used the International naming convention for drugs per WP:MEDMOS. If you click on the links for any of those drugs, you'd see the linked article uses the international spelling. Anyways, feel free to edit any medical article, there's a lot to do! OrangeMarlin Talk• Contributions 14:51, 26 March 2008 (UTC)

Ah, thank you. I'm a quick learner so won't make that mistake again, I hope. I'm an Emergency Physician, and keen to go through the medicine portal. Hopefully I can contribute.Pdrowemd (talk) 20:03, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
I'm a business guy who used to be a cardiologist. I decided I'd rather run a company than stick a PTCA catheter up a femoral artery to the LAD. Join in at the portal--there are hundreds of articles that need cleaning up. Some other links you should read is WP:CITET, so that you do references right, WP:VERIFY and WP:RS to read up on what are appropriate references, WP:NOR so that you don't write your own thoughts in an article, and WP:NPOV, WP:FRINGE and WP:WEIGHT, which will get you up to speed on neutrality. Essentially, we don't want to spend paragraphs saying how a crystal will cure cancer, unless there are a serious number of reliable sources that says it does. We stick with science in medical articles, meaning, if you can verify it, and it's not some fringe idea of the whackos, then write it or fix it. OrangeMarlin Talk• Contributions 23:04, 26 March 2008 (UTC)
A quick question... I'm probably spelling obsessed but I notice in the article that Acyclovir is spelled in two different ways. I know that non-INN names are used if referring to a drug in a trial, so is that why?Sisyphus (talk) 19:00, 28 March 2008 (UTC)
I actually don't know. In some cases, it is just history of the article (we usually don't spend any editing time switching between varieties of English). Post your question at Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style (medicine-related articles). Maybe someone will give us an answer that makes sense. OrangeMarlin Talk• Contributions 22:14, 28 March 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Medicine Collaboration of the Fortnight

 Thank you for your support of the Medicine Collaboration of the Week.
This week Ascending cholangitis was selected.
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NCurse work 20:57, 12 April 2008 (UTC)