Wikipedia talk:Manual of Style/Medicine-related articles

To-do list

• Add advice on how to incorporate the psychological, emotional, and social effects of health problems into articles.
  • should be infused throughout
  • may need some subsections, e.g., reaction to a life-threatening diagnosis
  • I support this one—and not just because I'm a psychologist! ;-) ... We have had discussion about this topic before. Let's link to such archived discussions, e.g., this one from 2008. Mark D Worthen PsyD (talk) [he/his/him] 14:36, 5 May 2021 (UTC)
• Add advice on how to present costs.
  • accuracy ("the wholesale list price in Ruritania in 2017 according to Alice", not "the price")
  • WP:MEDMOS2020 results
  • any recommended metrics, such as cost effectiveness, cost per DALY averted,[1] etc.
• Add statement about gender-neutral language.
  • Avoid unexpected neutrality for subjects very strongly associated with one biological sex (e.g., pregnancy, menstruation, and ovarian cancer affect "women"[2]; prostate cancer and orchiditis affect "men") but encourage gender neutrality for all others (e.g., heart disease)?
  • Defer to MOS for any individual person.
• Reading levels
• How to talk about suicide-related content (e.g., the "committed" RFC)
  • I've added a statement about the word "commit", and alternative phrasings. Bibeyjj (talk) 12:10, 28 October 2021 (UTC)
• Clarify how to include "evolution" in anatomy articles (suggest under "Development" subheading). Bibeyjj (talk) 18:52, 6 October 2021 (UTC)
• (Your idea here)

What to do with this to-do list?

It's not clear to me if the above "To-do list" is a WikiProject Medicine effort, i.e., something we, as a WikiProject, have decided (via consensus) to establish, or if it was one (unidentified) editor's idea, or something else. Can someone clarify? Mark D Worthen PsyD (talk) [he/his/him] 03:51, 4 May 2021 (UTC)

This is a collection of items that various conversations and disputes have indicated (a) it might be helpful for MEDMOS to address but (b) exactly what the consensus is or how to address the subject in MEDMOS will require further discussion.

Any editor is welcome to add a suggested topic to the list. It doesn't have to be a subject that you personally care about or relates to an article you were editing. Please add enough context that we can figure out what your subject is later.

If you feel ready to address one of the topics, then please start a new ==section== at the end of the page to ask a question or make a proposal. WhatamIdoing (talk) 06:53, 5 May 2021 (UTC)

Please don't start discussions in this section. Please do add links to prior discussions and examples or other details that you think will be helpful (signed or not, as you choose) when we have the real discussions. WhatamIdoing (talk) 16:35, 5 May 2021 (UTC)

Where should comorbities (related conditions) go within the content sections?

I can't see any instruction for where to place information about comorbities (related conditions) within the content sections. Should it be placed under epidemiology? Daphne Morrow (talk) 12:04, 1 December 2024 (UTC)

@Daphne Morrow, I believe that's the most common approach, but in some cases, it makes more sense to add it elsewhere. For example, if there is an overlapping condition that needs to be considered in the differential diagnosis (e.g., people can have either ME/CFS or POTS, or they can both), then you might put it there. WhatamIdoing (talk) 19:47, 1 December 2024 (UTC)

Thank you for this. Could this guidance be added to the manual of style for future reference please? Daphne Morrow (talk) 23:18, 1 December 2024 (UTC)

@Daphne Morrow, if you think it would be helpful, you can add it yourself. WhatamIdoing (talk) 07:14, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

Thanks for reminding me, I have enough edits to do that now :) Daphne Morrow (talk) 07:32, 6 January 2025 (UTC)

The page isn't protected. Anyone can edit it. If your edits are good, they'll even stick. :-) WhatamIdoing (talk) 09:04, 6 January 2025 (UTC)