[Tagging] Doctors in a joint practice

[Stefan Tauner]

On Tue, 29 Dec 2020 21:39:14 -0800
Joseph Eisenberg <joseph.eisenberg at gmail.com> wrote:

> In my area most doctor's practices are joint or larger groups, since it is
> quite a pain to run a solo practice in the USA, what with our mess of
> different health insurance options.
> 
> Currently there is a tag in use for the number of doctors on staff in a
> hospital: https://taginfo.openstreetmap.org/keys/staff_count%3Adoctors
> staff_count:doctors - and a similar tag staff_count:nurses - though it is
> rather long-winded. Just using "doctors=<number>" seems fine to me.

Given its history I am not so sure if staff_count:doctors would be a
good idea:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Proposed_features/Tag:staff_count:doctors
It's also more or less exclusively used in Africa, often with other
seldom use and often undocumented keys such as capacity:per_day. I'd
rather leave this alone.

> However, you might want to consider how to tag nurse practitioners and
> physician assistants, if those "mid-level practitioners" are present in
> your area: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mid-level_practitioner - are you
> going to include them in the count of doctors, along with physicians, or
> count them seprately?

For the use cases I am considering here I don't think it is worth it to
count them at all.


Thank you and everybody else for their feedback. I am still unsure if
only adding a count (no matter how) is the right thing to do or if we
should make it clearer by using a dedicated key-value pair instead.
I think I will go with doctors=number and an additional sentence in the
wiki (if nobody objects to the latter). After all, it has been in the
wiki before and was used that way. I'll fix the cases where it was used
for specialities too.

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Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner