User talk:NPMary

Still intending to be an editor?
I noticed that after your query at Teahouse, no subsequent edits. Are you still going to be with us? David notMD (talk) 23:13, 27 April 2019 (UTC)
 * Yes, I felt that my clinical pearls were over lapping with some evidence based information. I wanted to edit the page because patients of mine had referenced it and I wanted to add some of my evidence based practice experience.  But after I spent a couple of hours making edits I was shy to hit publish as I had only added 2 references.  I did read the instructions before I started. So I would like some guidance.
 * First rule of Wikipedia is be BOLD, i.e., make edits to improve article (of course, with appropriate referencing). If an editor disagrees with your additions or subtractions of content, you may find your changes REVERTED. Next step after that is to go to TALK of the page and start a DISCUSSION in an attempt to reach a consensus. In short: "BRD." For any article, View history shows chronological changes, and Talk shows past discussions. Medical/health topics require a high standard of referencing. See WP:MEDRS. Sadly, no referencing of in vitro work, animal studies, case studies, clinical trials or original research (includes not using your own observations and conclusions as a healthcare provider). Instead, only reviews, meta-analyses and position papers by government and respected non-gov organizations. My own involvement prioritizes correcting errors in articles about dietary supplement and nutrition science/treatment. If you don't mind my asking, what article irks you? David notMD (talk) 10:11, 28 April 2019 (UTC)

Still intending to be an editor!!!
Granulomatous Mastitis is a vexing benign breast disorder that I have 20 years of experience treating. I have never had a patient have extra pulmonary TB, or sacoidosis. And never had a patient have an underlying cancer. Once a biopsy proves it is GM, then it really is about treatment of symptoms. This disorder can resolve in 4 months but I have had many patients who wax and wane for 18 months. So people get frustrated and the over stated afiliations to other illnesses causes some patients to feel they are not properly diagnosed. So I wanted to understate these comments by inserting newer references which do not show significant incidence of these other illnesses. I now have a better understanding of how Wiki works, thank you David. I will find other articles to support my edits. Also it seems to me the page was originally posted by the authors of one of the references. So even though there have been edits, it is heavily weighted on their experience which has some differences to mine in my treatment chioces. But I realize that I cannot put those in unsupported. So I will regroup and come back in a few weeks. I had a quiet day Friday as people were off on vacation so I tackled it for a few hours. So it was still a good experience on dipping my toe in the pool. Warm Regards, Mary NPMary (talk) 11:51, 28 April 2019 (UTC)
 * I look forward to your contributions. I did a bit of article clean-up. If you look at "View history" you will see that an editor "Doc James" has contributed to this article. DJ is an MD and one of the most prolific of health topic editors at Wikipedia (>100,000 edits). A few tips: whenever you edit, provide a concise explanation of what you did in the "Edit summary" space at the bottom of the page. There are programs that create references in proper format. Enter a PMID number into https://tools.wmflabs.org/citation-template-filling/cgi-bin/index.cgi and you get a ref. (When adding it to text of article, need to bracket it with the ref and /ref stuff.). David notMD (talk) 12:23, 28 April 2019 (UTC)
 * P.S. Any editor with "bot" in name is a robot. David notMD (talk) 12:31, 28 April 2019 (UTC)