User:Nephron

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A Wikipedian. The name Nephron comes from the structural unit of the kidney.

I've been around WP since late 2004 and signed-up in mid-2005. I have a couple of thousand edits.

I have also contributed approximately 2,500 micrographs to the Wikicommons. Many of these images are found on WP. I can also be found on MediaWiki.

Toolbox

Mathbot - determine editing habits.
Wikipedia:Tools/Navigation popups - for quick reverts.
References format script.
Another references format script.
Yet another reference tool.
WP article traffic statistics - as discussed here.
Help:Formula.
Wikiholic test - the automated version.
JMIR Wiki Medical Reviews.

Medicine Stuff

WikiProject for medicine talk - aka doctors' mess.
Wikipedia:WikiProject_Medicine/Assessment#Statistics WikiProject Medicine stats generated using the Article lists tool.
WikiProject on drugs/pharmaceuticals.
Hematopathology images - Softenpoche

Interesting links

Evil reptilian kitten-eater from another planet - yup... that's a name of an article.
Jesusland map.
An interesting wikibook/idea.
Will Rogers phenomenon - why some changes in a cancer staging system can (paradoxically) improve outcomes in several subsets of patients.
Monty Hall problem - a mind-numbing probability problem.
Hawthorne effect - the psychology of being in a study... can screw-up the study.
Where citations come from - the information loop (citogenesis) or why one has to critically read WP.

Notes

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Why Wikipedia?

“Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. That’s what we’re doing.” - Jimbo Wales in a Slashdot interview.
Wikipedia measures well against Britannica according to Nature.[1][2]
Wikisoftware works.[3]
The Permission Problem
The Law of Unintended Consequences

Number of Wikipedia articles 6,915,513: Current UTC time 21:08

Ten articles I've enjoyed editing:

circle of Willis, femoral vein, home hemodialysis, Kt/V, renal osteodystrophy, oculocephalic reflex, nephritic syndrome, Nutcracker syndrome, Ottawa ankle rules, systemic inflammatory response syndrome.

Some articles I did significant edits on and/or started:

abdominal examination, adrenocortical carcinoma, aortocaval compression syndrome, aortoiliac occlusive disease, arterial tree, artificial extracorporeal liver support, Bankart lesion, benign paediatric heart murmurs, Bishop score, caloric reflex test, CaRMS, carpopedal spasm, College of Physicians and Surgeons of Ontario, Compendium of Pharmaceuticals and Specialties, Coombs test, DermAtlas, distal splenorenal shunt procedure, dysembryoplastic neuroepithelial tumour, Elizabeth McMaster, first trimester bleeding, flash pulmonary edema, Frank Gotch (MD), Gorlin sign, Hamilton General Hospital, Hill-Sachs lesion, Hirschberg test, Hotel Dieu Hospital (Kingston), intention to treat analysis, jugular venous pressure, John Francis Eisold, Juvenile idiopathic arthritis, laryngospasm, Love, Saskatchewan, Lover's fracture, liver dialysis, LMCC, Mallampati score, mini-mental state examination, Monteggia fracture, Murphy's sign, Nancy Fern Olivieri, nephritic syndrome, North York General Hospital, number needed to harm, oculocephalic reflex, Ottawa ankle rules, Otto Jirovec, PAIRO, Paul Kennedy (host), pericardial friction rub, physician assistant, pink lady (medicine), polysaccharide encapsulated bacteria, post-abortion syndrome, precordial examination, pulmonary embolectomy, pulmonary embolism, pulmonary thromboendarterectomy, pulsus bisferiens, pulsus paradoxus, pulsus tardus et parvus, respiratory examination, scoliosis, sepsis, Stress-strain index, systemic inflammatory response syndrome, Toronto Western Hospital, transjugular intrahepatic portosystemic shunt, University Hospital (London), Unterberger test, Victoria Hospital (London, Ontario), voiding cystourethrogram, zebra (medical).