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VisualEditor

Hey James,

When you've got a little time on your hands, would you drop me a note about testing VisualEditor's mw:Citoid for me? I've done a bit with it, and it seems to be working okay, but I'd like other people's opinions. It should let you get a complete cite journal template with just three short actions: open the tool, paste in the URL from PubMed, and click to submit. Just leave a note on my talk page if you'd like to try it out. Whatamidoing (WMF) (talk) 00:18, 10 September 2014 (UTC)

Okay will take a look. Is the whole url needed or just the PMID? Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 10:28, 10 September 2014 (UTC)

A kitten for you!

I like your work. I appreciate so much. F Pkechsam (talk) 05:51, 10 September 2014 (UTC)

Thank you. It is the work of many great people and we of course are looking for more people to expand our numbers. It is just little steps that are hopefully in the right direction. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 10:23, 10 September 2014 (UTC)

Ebola

The key edit I was trying to put forward is a 2 yo boy was traced as patient 0 who didn't get it from preparing bushmeat or washing a corpse. It is far more logical and likely since dogs are a reservoir that he was licked by one or played in the dirt around an infected animal. Fruit bats are repeated unproven vectors.

The sentence about dog licking bititing grooming was verbatim from CDC. Yes I read they are primary by definition, but a pretty good with many authors. Some now dead. Secondary sources are probably not keen. Not clearly informing the public that there is a strong possibility their dog is a vector till seroconversion does not sit right in light of dogs feeding on raw ebola infected corpses. Many eat dogs and bushmeat is a common interchangable term. Here in Philippines they eat dogs too.

Right now, how many dogs are loose in Africa that are in the process of seroconversion? How many owners are being licked vy their dog? I cite fact health care workers had to return to an area they thought they cleared. There obviously was a reservior present.

New concern please check this article it may be a hoax. It claims a confirmed plant cure. http://allafrica.com/stories/201409110224.html

I ammenuded the page for this plant. Should be stronger/ Different?Pbmaise (talk) 07:45, 11 September 2014 (UTC)

Okay so the ref we are discussing is this one . The ref in question is this one

The ref is from 2005 and thus obviously not about how this outbreak started.

This ref is not suitable --Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 09:33, 11 September 2014 (UTC)

Spelling

Hi, thanks for your vigilance on Childbirth. There are currently 68 "labour" and 24 "labor" in the text of this article. "Labour" is used in the lead and the majority of headings. Given this standardising on "labour" seemed to be the way to go.

All the best: Rich Farmbrough, 08:59, 11 September 2014 (UTC).

Certainly than. Reverted my edit. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 09:18, 11 September 2014 (UTC)

Schizophrenia

Hi James,

I think we may be talking past each other on the schizo article. The sentence in question currently reads

"While as a whole atypicals have fewer extrapyramidal side effects these differences are modest, and risperidone is comparable to haloperidol."

Your edit summary states:

" Sited ref says "these modest benefits were principally driven by the ability of second-generation antipsychotics to provide equivalent improvement in positive symptoms...."

But I was reading "differences" in this sentence as referring to extrapyrimidal side effects, and not the relative overall benefits. The source states

"In contrast to their relatively similar efficacy in treating positive symptoms, there were substantial differences among both first- and second- generation antipsychotic agents with regard to their propensity to cause extrapyramidal, metabolic and other adverse effects; second-generation agents have a lower liability to cause acute extrapyramidal symptoms and tardive dyskinesia along with a tendency to cause greater metabolic side-effects than first-generation agents."

which I read as meaning that the atypicals have a substantially lower risk of EPS. I am no longer sure I read this correctly, but don't have access to the full text document to get more color. Could you take a look at this, and if I interpreted it correctly, adjust the text appropriately?

Also, I've done nothing for now, but the second part of this sentence "risperidone is comparable to haloperidol." seems to have nothing to do with the cited ref, which states

"Cmpared with risperidone Haloperidol may be less effective at improving positive and negative symptoms in people with schizophrenia; however, results were inconsistent (low-quality evidence)'

Given that the evidence is low quality, I'm not quite sure why this particular comparison was called out, but it does seem that the article contradicts the source.

Formerly 98 (talk) 09:46, 11 September 2014 (UTC)

Casliber added that last bit. Best to move this discussion to the talk page. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 09:49, 11 September 2014 (UTC)

Greetings!

Hello good sir and thank you again for the policy reminder! I noticed that if you write on our talk pages we should write on yours, and since I had a question about it, I thought I would let you know I asked you one on my talk page. Anywho, I'm sure you are busy so please do not hurry on my account, I just want to know at some point how to do better going forward. Good day to you and thank you again!LesVegas (talk) 14:03, 11 September 2014 (UTC)

No worries. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 10:55, 16 September 2014 (UTC)

Invitation

Hello! As there is a Misplaced Pages article about you, you are cordially invited to contribute a short audio recoding of your spoken voice, so that our readers may know what you sound like and how you pronounce your name. Details of how to do so, and examples, are at Misplaced Pages:Voice intro project. Please feel free to ask for help or clarification on the project talk page, or my talk page. --1Veertje (talk) 14:25, 14 September 2014 (UTC)

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Acupuncture

Is anyone looking into acupuncture for possible treatment with nerve connections , etc?

I know some military members who were helped via acupuncture with severe back problems. This may be another area that could help people with CP . — Preceding unsigned comment added by 98.83.178.206 (talk) 23:15, 14 September 2014 (UTC)

No idea Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 06:24, 16 September 2014 (UTC)

Cites over one line

Pardon? I have no idea what you are talking about. Hamish59 (talk) 10:07, 16 September 2014 (UTC)

This edit which I reverted. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 10:09, 16 September 2014 (UTC)

Sorry, but I am still not getting it. What is wrong with what I have done? Hamish59 (talk)

The majority of us at WikiProject Med want refs kept over one continuous line. Ie no enters between each item. With papers that have dozens of others one ref can than take up many screens of text which makes it hard for us to edit. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 10:17, 16 September 2014 (UTC)

Ah, got it. Understood. I will go back and fix it. Hamish59 (talk) 10:20, 16 September 2014 (UTC)

Many thanks for you understanding :-) Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 10:21, 16 September 2014 (UTC)

No problemo. I was trying to fix one class of probelems, not cause more. Hamish59 (talk) 10:25, 16 September 2014 (UTC)

Multiple sclerosis#Types

Hmmm. You have accepted some changes but reversed and dispute others such as subsections or bolding for common multiple sclerosis types such as relapsing-remitting MS. I will have to go through the changes individually and see what the controvery is. This will have to wait til I have time. Facts707 (talk) 14:54, 16 September 2014 (UTC)

A barnstar for you!

The Original Barnstar

It astounds me that a doctor would be so irresponsible as to protect a page on 'Suicide Methods'. You do realise that over 80,000 people have viewed the page, which is easily accessible via a simple google search( 'suicide'). How many of those do you think will be using that information to kill themselves. Most of them. Including me. Right after I get the sodding article taken down to save countless lives. There is no academic shortage of information on the topic in question and any argument that it is mainly used for such purposes is frankly absurd. Misplaced Pages is a go to source of information which is readily accessible to all age groups. Redzimus (talk) 21:01, 16 September 2014 (UTC)

Misplaced Pages works by consensus. The semi protection helps this occur. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 23:58, 16 September 2014 (UTC)