Half of US Doctors Use Wikipedia for Diagnosis

I have a friend that works in IT at a hospital and he says that a lot of the doctors use WebMD, so I'm not surprised at all.

I have a friend that works in IT at a hospital and he says that a lot of the doctors use WebMD, so I'm not surprised at all.

WebMD is a licensed medical informatin source, wikipedia is user uploaded articles that can be fabricated to say anything. There is a HUGE difference. I figured you would've known.

Yeah, while I still wouldn't want my doctor using WebMD, it's a lot better than Wikipedia. It's actually a pretty darn good website.

WebMD is a licensed site. They aren't going on there to learn how to perform an operation, they are going there to reference something that they are unsure, or unaware about. Actual doctors use WebMD and post their own articles and sypnosises for others to use as simple references.

I personally use it almost every day for various tasks but with an actual account through WebMD there is access to a highly vast amount of information that is not available to all general public. <3 webmd.

I'd still rather my doctor not need it. They don't go through an absurd number of years of school for nothing.

I'd still rather my doctor not need it. They don't go through an absurd number of years of school for nothing.

This.

I'd still rather my doctor not need it. They don't go through an absurd number of years of school for nothing.

So you would rather a doctor just guess on something that there wasn't education for while he was in school. Let's say the Doctor is 60 years old. That would mean he probably went to school roughly 40 years ago, right? Maybe finished 30 years ago, there have been a ton of changes in medicine since then, and not all platforms are able to be covered.

Like I said, WebMD is fine, wikipedia is not.

Hence Medical Journals...

So you would rather a doctor just guess on something that there wasn't education for while he was in school. Let's say the Doctor is 60 years old. That would mean he probably went to school roughly 40 years ago, right? Maybe finished 30 years ago, there have been a ton of changes in medicine since then, and not all platforms are able to be covered. Like I said, WebMD is fine, wikipedia is not.

But it is funner for Dr. to use wiki...
Look up something, end up clicking a link, going to something else, something else, something else...

I love wikipedia...

So you would rather a doctor just guess on something that there wasn't education for while he was in school. Let's say the Doctor is 60 years old. That would mean he probably went to school roughly 40 years ago, right? Maybe finished 30 years ago, there have been a ton of changes in medicine since then, and not all platforms are able to be covered. Like I said, WebMD is fine, wikipedia is not.

Just because it's been a long time since the doctor was in school doesn't mean anything. If anything, that should mean they're more familiar with the every-day ailments that people are going to go to the doctor for. So my point stands, I'd rather my doctor just not need to use WebMD.