User:Nephron



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.
 * WikiProject_Medicine/Assessment 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.

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.
 * Wikisoftware works.
 * The Permission Problem
 * The Law of Unintended Consequences

Number of Wikipedia articles ': Current UTC time '

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).

Nephrology related articles I have started or made significant edits on:

BUN-to-creatinine ratio, captopril challenge test, clearance (medicine), focal segmental glomerulosclerosis, home hemodialysis, hepatorenal syndrome, Kt/V, normal anion gap acidosis, posterior urethral valves, post-infectious glomerulonephritis, renal artery stenosis, renal osteodystrophy, standardized Kt/V, vascular access steal syndrome.

Medication related articles I have started or made significant edits on:

deferiprone, dinoprostone, dipeptidyl peptidase-4 inhibitors, glycoprotein IIb/IIIa inhibitors, nateglinide, phenformin, phosphate binders, pro re nata, procalcitonin, saxagliptin, sitagliptin, small bowel follow-through, tirofiban, vildagliptin.

Radiology related articles I have started or made significant edits on:

air crescent sign chest X-ray, deep sulcus sign, football sign, halo sign, Kerley B lines, nutcracker syndrome, omental cake, pneumatosis intestinalis, radiologic sign, Rigler's sign, sail sign, steeple sign, thumbprint sign.

Some non-medical articles I have started or made significant edits on:

Angela Merkel, Manning formula, mass transfer coefficient, polar moment of inertia, relative risk.

Human anatomy related articles I have started or made significant edits on:

anterior communicating artery, anterior spinal artery, aorta, arteria pancreatica magna, artery of Adamkiewicz, arcuate foramen, carotid sinus, celiac artery, circle of Willis, clivus (anatomy), collateralization, cortical bone, cystic artery, dorsalis pedis artery, femoral vein, foramen of Winslow, gastroduodenal artery, greater sac, hepatic artery proper, Hesselbach's triangle, inferior epigastric artery, inferior epigastric vein, inferior vena cava, internal thoracic artery, internal thoracic vein, Interstitial cell of Cajal, Kiesselbach's plexus, lateral thoracic artery, lesser sac, persistent left superior vena cava, portal vein tributaries (inferior mesenteric vein, splenic vein, superior mesenteric vein), posterior cerebral artery, posterior communicating artery, superficial temporal artery, superior epigastric artery, tibial-fibular trunk, ulnar artery, veins of the leg (femoral vein, great saphenous vein, small saphenous vein).

Other links

 * Number of edits by Nephron using Kate's tool.
 * Another edit counter.
 * Micrographs at the Wikimedia Commons.
 * Task forces: Nephrology, Pathology, Radiology.
 * My sandbox.
 * Some more notes.