[Tagging] Doctors in a joint practice

[Stefan Tauner]

On Thu, 31 Dec 2020 00:25:37 +0100
"Yves P." <yves.pratter at gmail.com> wrote:

> > That Maison sounds a bit more like a clinic to me from what I could
> > research.  
> A clinic or hospital in France have "beds".
> 
> A MSP or (doctors in a joint practice) don't.

That ambulatory nature is exactly how clinics are defined in wikipedia
though: "A clinic (or outpatient clinic or ambulatory care clinic) is a
health facility that is primarily focused on the care of outpatients.
Clinics can be privately operated or publicly managed and funded. They
typically cover the primary care needs of populations in local
communities, in contrast to larger hospitals which offer more
specialised treatments and admit inpatients for overnight stays."
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinic

> > Also, the healthcare=centre tag has more critique in the wiki than
> > content :)  
> Yes , but the french community choose it because it's the closer definition for a MSP.

I won't argue with that but I think it shows that there might be some
merit in having an additional healthcare value for small clinics/big
doctors' offices (2 to maybe 10 physicians). Wouldn't this also suit
many of the French use cases of "centre" better (when moving the bigger
ones to clinic if need be)?

> > https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Talk:Tag:healthcare%3Dcentre
> > Also regarding its usage in France BTW.  
> 
> We document it here : https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/FR:Comment_cartographier_un_(santé)#Maison_de_sant.C3.A9

The usage of healthcare=clinic is not described there AFAICS.

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Kind regards/Mit freundlichen Grüßen, Stefan Tauner