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References to Star Fleet Database of the Future

Star Fleet... heh. As long as they keep it in the About pages and not pretending they're worth an encyclopedia article, I don't mind. Ensiform 05:52, 28 Feb 2004 (UTC)

• I always was amused that the computers on the various Start Trek shows had such minutae stored. Not that storage capacity wouldn't allow it, but just that someone took the effort to do all the data entry. I used to joke that in the future everyone was either a Star Fleet officer, or a data entry clerk. Then along came the World Wide Web. Of course! Everyone is entering all the data themselves! Kd4ttc 01:49, 2 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Ornament and Crime

Please could you take a look at this page again, based on the discussion on VfD, and see if you can verify the veracity of the re-write? If you know anything more about this, perhaps you could add something. Thanks, Mark Richards 18:49, 8 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Thanks! That's great - I vote to keep it on the basis of what you wrote - good work! Mark Richards 05:23, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Love it, I think more articles could do with a few more whimsical pieces in them. One thing about a collaborative writing project is that you tend to remove a lot of the personality from the writing style - more of this please! Mark Richards 19:25, 9 Mar 2004 (UTC)

Yes, I am familiar with what Steely Dan was in the book, that made it a particularly funny inside joke to those who had read it! Mark Richards 22:33, 16 Mar 2004 (UTC)

A Wikipedia doctors group?

Hi, glad to notice another doctor around. I was wondering if you might be interested in a more coordinated effort on the medical side of wikipedia. I'm getting jealous of all those nice blue boxes at the bottom of non-medical wikipedia articles :-). Do you know what happened to the "WikiProject Medicine"? JFW 10:08, 8 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Yes, there are a few of us. Users with medical backgrounds would be a nice list. Article, not. Is there a mechanism in wiki to allow seaches for users with certain backgrounds? A young anesthesiologist, Alan, I believe, was editing the medicine article, where I met him. I didn't hear about the Medicine project. Now that would be REAL work. Interesting idea, though. The wiki structure allows rapid editing of the text, with the inherent plusses and minuses of that. There are some nicely formatted articles out there. How come the non-medical superformatters are not applying such artisanry to the medical pieces? Kd4ttc 14:05, 8 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Thank you for your kind reply. It appears you have also moved your name to the "doctors" list on User:Jfdwolff/WikiDoc! I'll be updating the WikiDoc page with some of the feedback I've been having. Would you mind directing any feedback at my talk page? A kind General Practicioner from Poland (User:Kpjas) gave me some useful advice on determining the kind of readership Wikipedia medical articles should be aimed at. I'll try to write some sort of proposal. JFW 19:27, 8 Apr 2004 (UTC)

PS The formatting is probably hard for someone who's got little medical background. A non-medic might put paroxysmal nocturnal hemoglobinuria under the urology header (it is one of the occasions gastroenterologists and hematologists have to cooperate: when a PNH patient develops Budd-Chiari syndrome). I'll see if I can trace Alan.

Oh, I agree completely. The PNH example is a good choice. I was thinking of formatting in the very low level of how to put in side bars. A few of the military articles have nice examples of that. What you are talking to is the need for a system of specialized sysops. Sort of what an editor would be rather than mechanical in nature as the sysops are presently. (No offense intended. Th system works well) I like how lay folk go in and edit, even in medical articles. Much improved readability. I like participating in a general encyclopedia. BTW, I have in mind redoing the Celiac article. A special interest of mine.

• I will copy this to your talk. Email for me is a good technique. sholland at napervillegi dot com Kd4ttc 20:51, 8 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Hi Dr Holland (you might have noticed that I am from Holland, although presently living in the UK). The downside of sysops is, indeed, that they are not medically grounded. Frankly, I'm not sure if there are MD sysops around, and I do in fact wonder if a sysop would be needed for the things that we've been discussing (inserting "blue boxes", equalizing medical jargon, etc.)

I'd be delighted to see a good article on Celiac disease. There is, for example, nothing yet on tTG molecular mimicry etc. My best read on the subject recently was the review by Jabri and Green in The Lancet (2003).

My email is jfdwolff (a) doctors.org ; sadly, I'm not into Ham radio :-). JFW 21:14, 8 Apr 2004 (UTC)

A message over the WikiDoc network—
User:Ksheka is trying to move Heart attack to Myocardial infarction. This involves having the Redirect deleted at Myocardial infarction. Please vote for delete at: Wikipedia:Redirects_for_deletion#April_18.
JFW | T@lk 11:01, 22 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Bleeding

Hello Kd4ttc. Today I wrote a stubbly entry on Heyde's syndrome, which has been intriguing me for the past few months. I lack the expertise to say anything on the exact nature of angiodysplasia - would it be a generalisation to call them teleangiectasia of the gut? Do you have any pretty colonoscopy images? JFW | T@lk 13:29, 18 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Further to the above, I've done a basic rewrite on hepatitis. Any opinions? JFW | T@lk 14:11, 19 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Bad time this week. I will look next week. Steve Kd4ttc 03:09, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Yow! Nicely done! on Heyde's syndrome. kudos!

I looked at both. Hepatitis needs a diagnosis section, and some slight changes from IgG antibodies to IgG anti-blahblahblah as appropriate. I'll get to the diagnosis section next week. Anyone can get specific on the IgG specificities. I dont have telangiectasia pics, but will get some in a short while. Kd4ttc 03:22, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Thanks for the peer-review work (and the compliments). Concerning Heyde, a group from Canada (in Transfus Med Rev last year) maintains that high shear stress in the vasculature of the elderly might explain why they have a higher incidence of bleeding, even in the absence of aortic valve stenosis. We'll see— JFW | T@lk 03:29, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Yes, that is an additional problem. The bleeding ofrom telangiectasias in the elderly can be a big problem. Interestingly, it will sometimes respond to estrogen adminitration. estrogen/progesterone combo BCP's are of use, using the high dose estrogen combo pills. Kd4ttc 20:18, 20 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Another review request

Hello Kd4ttc, I've just completed a huge revamp of the gastroesophageal reflux disease page, which was merged with gerd (no capitals), an older page that happened to contain an NIH patients' information document. There must be lots of little things I've inadvertedly left out. I'd be delighted if you could guide the way on this—
JFW | T@lk 00:42, 25 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Looks like were both hot on the GERD article! It needs more work. The main problem is it confuses heartburn with GERD. Also, it underestimates the aggressiveness needed to treat it. We'll keep working on it. Steve Kd4ttc 03:12, 25 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Uh, your editing basically reminded me of the many flaws I had left behind... Indeed, heartburn (or should we say pyrosis) deserves a seperate treatment, delineating the boundaries with GERD. JFW | T@lk 03:14, 25 Apr 2004 (UTC)

I basically like the article. I am going to add more to flesh out the heartburn part of it. Keeping it in the same article is of use. There is a line of thinking that does put chronic heartburn in the GERD group. Sort of GERD characterized by normal histology. Whether it is GERD is getting at semantics. I want to include the data on elevation of the head of the bed +/- H2 blockers being 95% effective. With OTC H2's now available in the US it is very cheap treatment. Kd4ttc 15:20, 26 Apr 2004 (UTC)

The H2 statistic is news to me, but it sounds great. I put in the highly selective vagotomy in as an historical anecdote—does it belong here or in the peptic ulcer page? JFW | T@lk 15:42, 26 Apr 2004 (UTC)

Both! It was better treatment for PUD. Was it really used for GERD? That was back when the Sippe diet was in vogue. Ah for the days of metabolic alkalosis! Re PUD: For antacids in PUD dosing 7 times a day needs to be mentioned, in contrast to H2 blockers BID, PPI q day, and eradication therapy 1 course. Kd4ttc 20:31, 26 Apr 2004 (UTC)

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JFW | T@lk 12:30, 3 May 2004 (UTC)

Hepatitis

Compliments on your improvements on hepatitis. I wrote a page on Non-alcoholic steatohepatitis a while back; would you mind checking if I made any mistakes (I've got little clinical experience with that disease).
JFW | T@lk 12:42, 7 May 2004 (UTC)