User talk:Mehrenberg

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Good luck!. JFW | T@lk 13:28, 29 Jul 2004 (UTC)

PS Your work on pneumonia is appreciated! As you are obviously a doctor (general/internal medicine), would you be interested to join the Doctors' mess at the Wikiproject "Clinical medicine". It deals with all things medical, and apart from the surgeons, a lot of specialisms seem to be respresented :-).

Hello. I could not find any literature to back up my statement about the duration of gastroenteritis while using loperamide (at least if used in correct dosage) and I have corrected this, while adding that it is not recommended in children due to high incidence of toxicity (and i suppose, although i didn't write this, the difficulty for non-medical staff to administer the correct dosage). Feel free to add/change things. Cheers! ;p BjarteSorensen 22:53, 3 Aug 2004 (UTC)

Structure of medical articles

Hi Mehrenberg, thanks for all your medical input. I saw how you reorganised rheumatoid arthritis. Please don't forget that News style intros make an "Introduction" unnecessary, unless the introductory material is longer than can be covered in the 2-3 lines of a news-style intro.
Also, a category header is not necessary. Categories actually show up at the top in some older skins (e.g. Classic).
Finally, I strongly suggest that medical articles start with "Features", "Diagnosis", "Pathophysiology" and things like "History" only right at the end. Of course public health problems should probably have "Epidemiology" at the top, while historical diseases (Bubonic plague) may have to start with "History". Generally, most readers couldn't care less that their disease was discovered by some French guy in the 19th century... JFW | T@lk 06:56, 6 Aug 2004 (UTC)

I agree to the article structure in principle, but I disagree that epidemiology and history should have such a prominent place in the beginning. My compromise would be that some historical/epidemiological info should go in the intro ("lead section"), with the rest going in proper sections at the end of the article. An examples:

Recognised since the 19th century, this disease affects 10% of all adults in the Western world, with even higher rates occurring in India and Southeast Asia.

Please advise if you can live with such an arrangement. Of course, a different arrangement should exist for malaria and tuberculosis, which are better known as a public health problem to most readers than as something that would affect them personally... JFW | T@lk 10:51, 8 Aug 2004 (UTC)

PS: Shall we take this discussion to the Wikiproject talk page?

Category

Placed category physician on your user page. --Nomen Nescio 10:07, August 27, 2005 (UTC)

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Type of doctor

What type of doctor are you, internist, surgeon...? Jack Daw 13:33, 22 August 2006 (UTC)

I am an internist Mehrenberg 22:27, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

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