Thomas Dalton wrote:
2009/5/26 <WJhonson(a)aol.com>om>:
Actually I think providing dosage information
would *avoid* much more harm
than it would cause.
Most people use books on drugs to check up on their prescriptions and
educate themselves.
If the doctors mistakenly prescribed 200mg tablets when the standard dosage
is 20mg, then I'm sure you'd want the person to be able to know that.
I would hope the pharmacist that filled the prescription would spot
something like that. I'm not sure people second guessing their doctors
will have a net benefit...
Actually my life experience using wikipedia for self medication
does not bear that out. There have been situtations where I was
in dire straits, and without a doctor within easy reach, where
simply consulting wikipedia provided me with the necessary
information of which medicines I had been prescribed for
completely different ailments, was a multipurpose drug
workable in the situation I found myself.
and that is a fact. I am sure there
are phone-line services I could
have consulted, but wikipedia
worked ok.
Yours,
Jussi-Ville Heiskanen