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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