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Screen capture of French Wikipedia entryEdited an hour later – I had the wrong French speaking e-patient!

On Facebook today Christine Bienvenu @TinaBurger posted this news on my timeline:

… with the help of a Swiss colleague who works at the Geneva University Hospitals we were able to get the French definition of‪#‎epatient‬ onto the French Wikipedia. I was sick of not finding the definition in French and so decided that it was time to fix that. Seeing as I’m in the middle of translating Let Patients Help, I used that as inspiration to create the definition.

At first it was put up for removal as some of the Wikipedia moderators who obviously don’t “get it” declared that it was a buzzword-trend concept and not an actual scientific term. But we were able to argument it’s legitimacy with definitions, references and external links to show just how seriously it is considered in the medical world. I then sollicitated the help of my influencial epatient friends in France and others in the twittosphere to vote for keeping the definition on Wikipedia. And it has just been officially accepted onto Wikipedia! 

Congratulations, Christine, and thank you!

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