[OSM-talk] [tagging] Medical centres, clinics, doctors and dentists

[graham]

For the UK we should also flag which PCT (Primary Care Trust) each 
clinic etc is in. Is is_in appropriate for organizational membership?

Graham

Andrew Chadwick (mailing lists) wrote:
> Chris Hill wrote:
>> Clinic can apply to other medical folks, such as chiropodists and 
>> physiotherapists too.
> 
> 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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