“But as a Wikipedian, I can make a difference in millions and millions of people”
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James Heilman
James M. Heilman is a Canadian emergency physician, Wikipedian, and advocate for the improvement of Wikipedia's health-related content. He encourages other clinicians to contribute to the online encyclopedia.
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science · Canadian emergency physician and Wikipedian · physician · educator · athletics competitor · Wikimedian · also James Heilman, James M. Heilman, Doc James, James M Heilman, Heilman J, J Heilman
Born 1979 · Q16225640
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Additionally there are national advocacy organizations for specific disease and/or health conditions. For example, as a psychiatrist I will refer my patients and their families to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI).
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2026· 10 entries
“Additionally there are national advocacy organizations for specific disease and/or health conditions. For example, as a psychiatrist I will refer my patients and their families to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI).”
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“As a physician I believe all people deserve access to quality health care information.”
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“I prefer to call it our first child.”
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“And then I saw the edit button, and I realized,”
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“noticed it supported it a little too well,”
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“was given the option of resigning [by the board] over the last few weeks. As a community elected member, I see my mandate as coming from the community which elected me and thus declined to do so. I saw such a move as letting down those who elected me.”
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“The way Wikipedia works is that all content is to stand entirely on the references that are listed. If the best quality sources are used to write Wikipedia there”
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“The psychological community is trying to exclude everybody outside their field from taking part in discussions related to what they do. And personally, I think that”
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U.S. News & World Report: James Heilman
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2017· 1 entry
Vice also ran an article about conflict-of-interest editing on Wikipedia, in which the author noted that Heilman had vocally called on the Wikimedia Foundation to increase its enforcement of Wikipedia's policy against un
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2016· 1 entry
Stated that he edited medical articles on Wikipedia for about 60 hours a week
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2015· 3 entries
Career landmark: editor (2015–2017).
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Heilman and Andrew West published a study that found the number of Wikipedia editors focusing on editing medical articles decreased by 40 percent from 2008 to 2013
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The Atlantic ran a piece about conflict-of-interest editing on Wikipedia which detailed Heilman's efforts to counteract edits made by employees of Medtronic to the Wikipedia page for percutaneous vertebroplasty
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2014· 4 entries
Told the Cranbrook Daily Townsman that the emergency department at East Kootenay saw an average of 22,000 patients each year
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The Wiki Project Med Foundation also partnered with the Cochrane Collaboration, to improve the reliability and accuracy of information on Wikipedia
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Told the Cranbrook Daily Townsman that with respect to Wikipedia's coverage of Ebola, "The big thing is emphasizing what we know, making sure that minor concerns don’t get blown out of proportion
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Heilman criticized a study which concluded that nine out of ten Wikipedia medical articles contained errors
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2012· 2 entries
Heilman noticed that the book Understanding and Management of Special Child in Pediatric Dentistry, published by Jaypee Brothers, contained a long passage about HIV that was plagiarized from Wikipedia's article on the su
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Heilman was one of two Wikimedia contributors sued by Internet Brands for shifting freely licensed content and volunteer editors from the for-profit site Wikitravel to the non-profit site Wikivoyage
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2009· 3 entries
Heilman also said that "This information [i
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Heilman, who was then a resident of Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, added public domain images of the ink blots used in the Rorschach test to the Wikipedia article on the subject, and concerned psychologists said that this coul
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“fears were unfounded. Appearing on Canada AM on July 31, 2009, Heilman also said that”
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2008· 1 entry
Heilman has been promoting the improvement of medical content by encouraging fellow physicians to take part
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2006· 1 entry
And 2010, while the textbook had not been published until 2011
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2000· 1 entry
With a Bachelor of Science degree in anatomy, and he subsequently earned his medical degree there in 2003
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1979· 1 entry
Born 1979.
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