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Dear Madhero88, Thanks so much for the welcome and helpful info! I hope I can be of help to the project. BSW-RMH (talk) 23:34, 9 May 2010 (UTC)BSW-RMH

Q

No worries it takes a little time to figure out how Wikipedia works. You can use the same ref in multiple places like this:

point A <ref name=RefA>{{ref}}</ref> point B <ref name=RefA/>

If you look at an article like strep throat you will see this syntax used. Cheers Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 03:16, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

Thank you! BSW-RMH (talk) 14:23, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

I have added your comment to the main google project page. Feel free to move it if you want.Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 15:54, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

Correction. It is fine to have it on both pages.Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 23:05, 13 May 2010 (UTC)

Welcome!

Welcome to Wikipedia! Axl ¤ [Talk] 00:05, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

		The Medicine Barnstar
		To BSW-RMH, for your review of "Chagas disease". Axl ¤ [Talk] 00:05, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

Thanks

I have already said it in the HD talk; but from what I have seen I feel that your reviews are probably being the best ones in the google collaboration: I feel that you have grasped the collaborative spirit of wikipedia since you are interacting with editors and projects instead of simply throwing your reviews in talk pages. Thanks a lot for your great work. For sure it will bring great improvements to many articles which will go further than your specific proposed changes: You may have already noticed that high quality reviewing (and editing) brings high quality editing and therefore you are creating a great group momentum.Bests.--Garrondo (talk) 06:50, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

Double thanks, based on the HD review, you have a polite and complimentary manner and good reviewing style. Pleased to see you've gotten a barnstar already! Lee∴V (talk • contribs) 12:43, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

Thank you so much! I am so glad the reviews are helpful!! I feel very honored to be a part of the project and have enjoyed working with you all. BSW-RMH (talk) 16:11, 14 May 2010 (UTC)

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Heartburn

Heartburn is a symptoms not a disease. It is thus not commonly confused with chest pain but can indicated an MI/ACS just as chest pain can indicate an MI/ACS. The disease that heartburn usually indicates is gastritis or GERD and that is were the discussion of these symptoms belong.Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 16:26, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

A quick note

Hey RMH it is always a good idea to have the text you are added copied to the clipboard before hitting save. This prevents whatever you have just written from being lost :-) Cheers. --Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 17:37, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

Anyway let me know when you are wishing to discuss this issue further. I by the way see people on a regular basis who have delayed their presentation to the emergency department with an MI because they though it was GERD due to the symptom of heartburn. This is well documented in the literature that this is a prevalent misconception to equate heartburn with GERD. Just because the Mayo Clinic repeats this misinformation does not mean that we hear at Wikipedia wish to do the same. The gastroenterologist get the diseases of GERD and gastritis but it is we the emerg docs who specialize in the management of symptoms and signs such as heart burn and chest pain. :-) Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 17:46, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

Hi there, I've started copying to the clip board now :) I also try to hit preview often as this saves changes in a recoverable way too. OK, so I revised the edit to try to explain how I am approaching this. I am going to just use common terms here-to reflect the audience we are writing for. I appreciate fully your perspective and I've thought about this in detail. For me it comes down to writing for the Wikipedia audience. My recommendation for the definition is not to define heartburn as symptom but to define it as a condition/disease. The symptom you are calling heartburn I proposed to call a burning sensation in the chest. Here's my reasoning: that is the way the general public would most commonly define those two situations (as well as gastroenterologists). I do recognize that some lay people, and emergency docs as you mentioned, also use 'heartburn' to refer to any burning sensation in the chest AND that these different causes of burning sensations in the chest can be easily confused by patients if the pain is not severe, which should be noted in the definition section, but I don't think that is the most common definition. I think this makes the most sense, and is the most in line with the purpose of Wikipedia. I'll leave the recommendation on the talk page though so editors can hash it out and reach consensus on whether to define it as a 'symptom' or aconditon/disease'. BSW-RMH (talk) 18:43, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

Wikipedia has a policy to deal with naming issues for medical articles Wikipedia:Manual of Style (medicine-related articles) which stipulates that we us technical terms in a technical sense. Gastroenterologist BTW do not usually use the term "heartburn" to describe a disease but the more specific terms GERD, functional heartburn, etc. I agree that the lay press does use heartburn to indicate GERD but we cannot us it in this sense as 1) we already have a page on this topic so this would be a cotract 2) it would become to complicated we a mix of technical and nontechnical terms.Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 19:21, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

I also agree that scientific intitutions such as the mayo clinic when writing for the lay public use heartburn as a synonym for GERD. I think this is poor practice but it is what it is.Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 19:23, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

Let me be clear: I am not using GERD as synonymous with gastric reflux. GI clinicians commonly use heartburn to refer to the pain caused by gastric reflux, not just GERD. GERD is a very specific disease/condition/disorder and rightly should have it's own article. BSW-RMH (talk) 20:10, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

I am finished with the review-so I am going to move this discussion over to the heartburn talk page if that's OK with you. BSW-RMH (talk) 20:12, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

(undent) Sure and I have asked other to provide their opinions.Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 21:41, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

Great! That would be incredibly helpful for reaching a consensus on the article-if it is supposed to be about a symptom only, then the review will need to be redone. BSW-RMH (talk) 21:43, 18 May 2010 (UTC)

Will leave it for a few days. Often takes some time for people to comment.Doc James (talk · contribs · email) 16:00, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

Chagas disease

Chagas disease has been marked as completed on the list of articles. As with all things wiki, if you disagree, you just need to let us know. WhatamIdoing (talk) 02:27, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

OK. Thanks for letting me know :) BSW-RMH (talk) 15:17, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

Sorry, I guess I'm a bit late (sometimes I work in my own little bubble). But I have indeed implemented all of the changes that you suggested for the Chagas article. Thank you for making it so easy for me... The suggestions that you gave for actual text that I could incorporate into the article were very helpful. If you wouldn't mind taking a look to confirm that all of your suggestions were appropriately addressed, I think we can call this one closed. Again, thank you for your simple, easy to follow, and comprehensive review! Cheers--DO11.10 (talk) 17:19, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

Well done! I just checked it over and I think this article is superlative. Maybe WP:MED can add a class called 'Gold Standard Articles', with the Chagas article as the first member. BSW-RMH (talk) 14:54, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

Huntington's disease

I believe that we have followed most of your advices. We still have some doubts with naming conventions for genes, and up to this moment your advice has been very useful in this aspect. Whenever you have time some more input would be most praised. Bests.--Garrondo (talk) 08:28, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

Great! You are fast! I should have time later today or tomorrow to weigh back in. BSW-RMH (talk) 15:16, 19 May 2010 (UTC)

I checked it out and added a few comments that I hope will help with the remaining issues. It looks great! I can see why this one is featured :) BSW-RMH (talk) 17:06, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

I have just read your answer on the penetrance issue and seems great. Since it is long and changes would have to be subtle I'll re-read them carefully over the weekend and try to work over them. Thanks a lot for all your effort.--Garrondo (talk) 19:38, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

Glad it helped and you are very welcome :) BSW-RMH (talk) 20:57, 20 May 2010 (UTC)

Been rushing around getting ready - (and in the right location) for a good friend's wedding this weekend ... should be back in action shortly after to rejoin in the fun and clear up any remaining points ( if you leave me any - Garrondo! ) Cheers! Lee∴V (talk • contribs) 00:31, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

Sexual intercourse article

Just letting you know that I replied to all of your concerns and suggestions, and have started to make changes to the article. Flyer22 (talk) 21:46, 21 May 2010 (UTC)

Great! It looks like at least one of the suggestions will be useful :) Good luck with your writing and improvements. BSW-RMH (talk) 01:56, 25 May 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for the heads up. I am all for you helping out. Flyer22 (talk) 19:05, 26 May 2010 (UTC)

I've updated all the ref and stats from the intro to the legal/ethical/religion section. I'd like to replace this next section with the outline I suggested in the review to address the Refimprove tag. This can be expanded over time, but will allow the article to be translated in the mean time. What are your thoughts on doing this? BSW-RMH (talk) 15:40, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

Replied on the talk page. Flyer22 (talk) 17:00, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

But as I stated there, "Awesome, awesome work, BSW-RMH. It feels really good to have significant help with this article. I have often put off fixing certain areas, due to being busy, lost of interest in editing Wikipedia, or just plain laziness. So I thank you a lot, especially for your expertise. Yes, I am all for you redesigning the Ethical, moral, and legal issues section." Flyer22 (talk) 17:01, 27 May 2010 (UTC)

There is a recent discussion on the talk page relating to an addition you made. See here: Talk:Sexual intercourse#Sheep and sexual intercourse. Flyer22 (talk) 16:58, 22 June 2010 (UTC)

Dermatology

Any interest in dermatology? If so, we are always looking for more help at the Dermatology task force, particularly with the ongoing Bolognia push. I can e-mail you the login information if you like? There is still a lot of potential for many new articles and redirects. Just let me know. ---kilbad (talk) 17:55, 17 July 2010 (UTC)

Constipation

Thank you for improving constipation. Could I persuade you to apply citation templates when adding references? These will automatically parse some of the content into hyperlinks, e.g. the DOI. JFW | T@lk 06:12, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

I am not following that page, but I only wanted to mention that if you are adding articles cited in pubmed you can use this tool: you add the pmid number and you have your citation ready to paste in the article.--Garrondo (talk) 07:32, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

I'll give it another try. I was having problems using that tool for some reason. I was hoping a bot would come aorund and fix my manual citations :) BSW-RMH (talk) 00:51, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

That tool is working great! I'm using it for direct edits now. Thanks! BSW-RMH (talk) 01:35, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

Question and request

Hello! I left a question at Talk:Sexual intercourse#Question which I think is for you (I didn't review the whole article history, just the talk page.)

I also have a request: In the Nutrition article, someone went through and added [citation needed] tags to essentially all of the unsourced claims, but then someone else googled most if not all of those and found supporting sources that they recorded at Talk:Nutrition#Citation Verification. Could you please look through those and merge in the ones which you think are good sources? I've been looking to do this for a while, but I don't have the biology expertise which I think you do.

Thanks for all the work you've been doing. Selery (talk) 00:10, 22 July 2010 (UTC)

Hi Selery, I am actually contracted by Google to do the 'external edits' and I have a pretty big backlog at the moment. When I am finished with those, I will check through the nutrition sources on my own time. I'll drop you a line when I get a chance to look it over. BSW-RMH (talk) 00:54, 23 July 2010 (UTC)

Depression (mood)

Hi. I think all your suggestions here are sensible. I work very slowly, and am picking at the article here and there, but if you want to dive in and execute massive changes, be my guest. I support every one of your proposals. Anthony (talk) 12:36, 9 August 2010 (UTC)

Thanks for letting me know you are working on it and I'm really glad you support the suggestions! I'll probably only implement changes that don't require a consensus, such as adding citations or additional referenced material. I'll just have to see how the time goes. BSW-RMH (talk) 02:54, 10 August 2010 (UTC)

Asthma

Thank you for your further review (a month ago). Unfortunately I'm rather busier now and I have less time to work on the article. However we (WikiProject Medicine) appreciate your review and we'll continue to work on it. Axl ¤ [Talk] 10:04, 2 September 2010 (UTC)

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Thanks, but I have not submitted this for review or publication at this time- this is merely a very unfinished draft that was using this as placeholder content while I was doing research.........is it possible to leave my work in progress until I submit for review? BSW-RMH (talk) 16:45, 10 May 2017 (UTC)

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