BBC News - Hundreds of GPs admit to using the website Wikipedia as a medical research tool - 0 views
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Derek Gittler on 01 Jun 11Shades of the Shirky Symposium Keynote? At first glance this might seem frightening to the layman, but think about it: knowledgeable, trained doctors using an additional but social source to find information that augments peer reviewed journals. -
Allan Gyorke on 02 Jun 11I wonder how much time doctors have to devote to research in peer reviewed journals. Maybe they get to read JAMA. When Andrew needs to look up something medical, he often starts with Wikipedia or PubMed and then digs deeper from there.