wikidoc:Quick Start Guide - Introduction
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Welcome to WikiDoc!
Thank you for visiting WikiDoc! WikiDoc is the first and largest wiki dedicated to medicine. WikiDoc was created in the spirit of "Internet 2.0", and is online community where anyone can contribute to and edit the world's largest free living textbook of medicine in a process we term "Co-creation". The additions are monitored by medical professionals (Editors-In-Chief). You only need to know how to use a word processor to contribute. Hundreds of individuals are contributing to WikiDoc, and you can see their most recent contributions and edits by clicking on the Recent Changes page.
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- Anyone can explore WikiDoc by entering a topic of interest in the serch box or clicking on one of the categories.
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Acknowledgement and Attribution Regarding Sources of Content
Some of the initial content on this page may be incorporated in part from copyleft sources in the public domain including wikis such as Wikipedia and AskDrWiki. Drug information for patients came from the The National Library of Medicine. Infectious disease information may have come from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC). Differential Diagnoses are drawn from clinicians as well as an amalgamation of 3 sources: 1.The Disease Database; 2. Kahan, Scott, Smith, Ellen G. In A Page: Signs and Symptoms. Malden, Massachusetts: Blackwell Publishing, 2004:3; 3. Sailer, Christian, Wasner, Susanne. Differential Diagnosis Pocket. Hermosa Beach, CA: Borm Bruckmeir Publishing LLC, 2002:7 .
