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50 Percent of Doctors Use Wikipedia

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posted: 29 July 2009 07:33 am ET

More than half of U.S. adults turn to the Internet when they have health or medical questions, according to a survey from the Pew Research Center. That's no surprise. But the information isn't always reliable at sites like Wikipedia, one of the most popular for this sort of thing, New Scientist reports. More alarmingly, a survey in April found that 50 percent of doctors turn to Wikipedia for medical info. Let's say, oh, take two of these and we'll cut that off ...

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