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==References== Please use high quality references per WP:MEDRS such as review articles or major textbooks. Note that review articles are NOT the same as peer reviewed articles. A good place to find medical sources is TRIP database Thanks.

Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 06:12, 20 March 2013 (UTC)

Please use review articles rather than primary research. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 08:19, 22 March 2013 (UTC)

Two things

1) You cannot copy and paste text as that is plagarism

2) The review article in question must mention the disease in question

Thanks

Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 01:20, 24 March 2013 (UTC)

Also this page gives advice on formatting references WP:MEDHOW Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 01:21, 24 March 2013 (UTC)

Per WP:MOS we typically write in prose not lists. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 12:23, 24 March 2013 (UTC)

Seasonal suicide

you wrote:

Hi, just saw you discussion on Doc James page about the misconception of suicide increasing in winter. Coincidentally I just heard or read a report about how Greenland has one of the highest suicide rates. I assumed they would be higher in winter because of the practically continuous darkness. The article mentioned that suicides were highest in summer. My guess is that in the winter if someone is depressed they simply sleep or go into vegetative state and have less willpower to take the action of suicide. In the summer with hotter weather and constant light it is harder to escape the demons in one's mind and harder to sleep so already being agitated and away, it is a much smaller step to just put an end to it all. Another example of what I thought was common knowledge was backwards. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sthubbar (talk • contribs) 00:25, 24 March 2013 (UTC)

My reply:

Sthubbar, I have seen the same misconception repeated in movies and in the media. It follows that people that are estranged from their families experience the loss more vividly during holidays. I work with persons diagnosed with mental illness and some of the more brutal suicides I have seen over the years were close to the holidays and often involved rejection by parents and children, which served as an antecedent to the suicide. Despite this, the data is clear, even when examining smaller sample sets, that majority of suicides (i.e. suicide attempts that are fatal) do not occur during the winter holiday season and actually peak during spring and early summer. Thank you for your feedback. Your comments about winter and depression, hotter weather, and insomnia certainly make sense to me and are shared by other mental health professionals.Evangelos Giakoumatos (talk)

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Refs

Typically one only needs one high quality review article as a ref.

Also we do not usually use "patient" but "person with X" Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 05:49, 25 March 2013 (UTC)

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Alternative Medicine

I have posted http://en.wikipedia.org/Wikipedia:Editor_assistance/Requests#Alternative_Medicine. Just letting you know, as the issue of the definition should be addressed too. Ryanspir (talk) 13:44, 7 April 2013 (UTC)

You have made your 4th revert to osteoathritis

Would advice that you change it back and get consensus. Doc James (talk · contribs · email) (if I write on your page reply on mine) 00:17, 8 April 2013 (UTC)