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i think<br>
<pre wrap=""> amenity=clinic
medical=<servicelist>
emergency=yes|no</pre>
would work great, <br>
here in spain we have "centro de salud" (=health center)<br>
wich is public health care.<br>
there is one in each village or suburb.<br>
they are meant to liberate mayor hospitals of 1st aid <br>
and not so important/critical doctor care.<br>
<br>
they differ a bit on medical=<servicelist><br>
so specifing that list would be ok.<br>
they are also emergency=yes
<br>
<pre wrap=""> i would add
operator=public or
operator=goverment
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to differentiate them from private clinics.<br>
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opticians are understood the same way as uk<br>
they graduate your eyes to make glasses.<br>
if you have an illness of that kind then you go to an <br>
<span onclick="dr4sdgryt2(event)" style="cursor: pointer;">ophthalmologist</span><br>
<br>
sergio sevillano<br>
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Andrew Chadwick (mailing lists) escribió:
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<pre wrap="">Chris Hill wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Clinic can apply to other medical folks, such as chiropodists and
physiotherapists too.
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And physical rehabilitation, dementia care, psychiatric counseling...
the list might be quite a long one.
I'm coming round to the opinion that the different kinds of surgeries
are all just really kinds of what's being proposed in the rather
stronger Clinic_(Medical) proposal. But it is probably wise to
distinguish a dentist from a chiropodist somehow if they might be the
only ones occupying their respective buildings.
I think we should merge everything into Clinic_(Medical), either before
it gets accepted or after. Make that mean anything from a huge
polyclinic covering many disciplines to small doctors' surgeries and
dental practices.
So how to distinguish one sort of treatment or care from another?
Perhaps a merged proposal for "small to medium medical facilities"
should be something like:
amenity=clinic
medical=<servicelist>
emergency=yes|no
where <servicelist> is a semicolon-separated list of values from
{dentist, doctor, chiropodist, physiotherapy, minor_surgery, ...}.
Opticians in the UK are more like high-street shops than medical
facilities. It would feel strange to call an optician a clinic too, even
if the upstairs consulting rooms are all separate and have something of
the doctor's surgery nature. Hmm.
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