User talk:Mdhough1958

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Welcome to Wikipedia from the Medicine WikiProject!


Welcome to Wikipedia from WikiProject Medicine (also known as WPMED). We're a group of editors who strive to improve the quality of medical articles here on Wikipedia. One of our members has noticed that you are interested in editing medical articles; it's great to have a new interested editor on board. In your wiki-voyages, a few things that may be relevant to editing Wikipedia articles are:


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Feel free to drop a note on my talk page if you have any problems. I wish you all the best on your wiki voyages! AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 00:36, 2 August 2019 (UTC)

Help me!
Regarding the page Clonazepam, I tried to edit what was an obvious error. It stated:

Clonazepam is prescribed for short term management of epilepsy and panic disorder with or without agoraphobia

It should read clonazepam should be prescribed...

The fact is that clonazepam is sometimes prescribed long term, whether or not it should be. The drug company Accord, in it's literature, admits to that fact. This is not new information and I wish it could be corrected. Wikipedia should not be used as a forum to downplay the effects of potentially dangerous drugs. Many doctors will not even prescribe it.

Please help me with this...

Mark Hough Mdhough1958 (talk) 23:19, 1 August 2019 (UTC)
 * Hello Mdhough1958, and welcome to Wikipedia! Content on Wikipedia pages is often improved using the bold, revert, discuss cycle. Being bold means making changes to articles that you think will improve the article. If another editor thinks that the previous version was better, they can revert your edit. Once your edit has been reverted, you should discuss the changes with interested editors on the article talk page. You can find the link to the article talk page in the top left corner of your screen while looking at the article. The talk page about clonazepam is Talk:Clonazepam. You should know that biomedical information on Wikipedia is held to a higher standard than most other content. If you want more help, change the help me-helped back into a help me, stop by the Teahouse, or Wikipedia's live help channel, or the help desk to ask someone for assistance. AntiCompositeNumber (talk) 00:51, 2 August 2019 (UTC)