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Welcome to wikiMD.org. WikiMD is a free [[wiki]] based medical encyclopedia and medical wiki community. My name is [[User:Prab|Prab Tumpati]] and I am a practicing practicing [[Internal medicine]], [[Sleep medicine|Sleep]], [[Obesity medicine|obesity]], and [[aesthetic medicine|medical aesthetic]] [[physician]] located in in [[Philadelphia]], [[Pennsylvania]]. I am also a technology enthusiast, having learnt several softwares and started websites like [http://www.believerscafe.com believerscafe], [http://www.residentscafe.com residentscafe] and [http://www.wikichristian.com wikichristian]. I started this wiki with a goal to build an [[open source]], free medical [[encyclopedia]] using the collaborative [[Wiki]] technology. 

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'''Let food be medicine and medicine be food - Hippocrates'''

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'''Why a wiki?'''

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It is found by various surveys that up to 60% of the people online have used the internet for accessing medical information. The [[wiki]] provides a wonderful opportunity to provide up to date information and links on any topic of interest in medicine. While there are great wiki projects like wikipedia.org for developing general encyclopedia's, there is no dedicated medical wiki project, to the best of my knowledge. I feel that, both the medical community and the general public interested in medical information, can interact in a wiki platform to share the latest ideas and trends in medical knowledge and arrive at a consensus.

==Why WikiMD== <!--T:5-->
In traditional publishing, readers must wade through many articles on a subject, each written by a few experts, published at 1 moment in time. In Wikipedia you read article written by people with a professional degree, unlike wikipedia. 

==Professional degree== <!--T:6-->
While wikipedia serves as a general encyclopedia, WikiMD aims to be a medical encyclopedia with articles, links, images and information on everything related to medicine and health, with the key difference being WikiMD is edited by people with a professional degree in medicine which keeps the information more accurate! 
[[File:W8md-short.jpg|thumb|Health professionals]]

==Accuracy of information== <!--T:7-->
As a significant proportion of the people on the web searching medical information, it is important to provide professional level information, edited and moderated by professionals in a wiki encyclopedia format. 

==Pit falls of crowd sourcing== <!--T:8-->
When it comes to health, you do not ask the crowd for information, but seek professional level information and advice. The purpose of WikiMD is to provide the medical encyclopedia with a higher accuracy.

==Project with great potential== <!--T:9-->
Many surveys have proven that patients find it difficult to find reliable health information.
If you are a medical professional interested in becoming a sysop user with administrative previleges or have other ideas to improve or work together in this project, please feel free to contact me at tumpati at hotmail dot com. I once again reaffirm that I do not have any commercial interest in this project other than providing information free of cost and with a focus on weight loss and wellness. Together, we can do it! Let us make a difference! 

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---[[User:Prab|Prab]] 02:13, 22 July 2006 (EDT)
[http://www.about.me/w8md Prab R Tumpati, MD]
Founder, WikiMD
Philadelphia, PA, USA.

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'''Our office address:'''
WikiMD.org, a subsidiary of WikiMD is a website of W8MD, LLC. Address 140 E Evesham Road, Cherry Hill NJ 08003. Phone 215-676-2334 or 800-W8MD-007, Fax 215-676-2366.

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Note: Please also visit our other projects [http://www.wikichristian.org wikichristian] and [http://wwww.usmlecafe.com/wiki/ Usmlecafe wiki]
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