Proposed features/Doctor
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| Doctor | |
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| Status: | Abandoned (inactive) |
| Proposed by: | Emj |
| Tagging: | amenity=doctor |
| Applies to: | node/area |
| Definition: | a place you can go to get medical attention or do a check up |
| Rendered as: | |
| Draft start: | 2008-09-06 |
| RFC start: | 2008-09-06 |
| Vote start: | * |
| Vote end: | * |
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Rationale
Doctor is a place you can go to get medical attention or do a check up. These go from a single doctors office to larger establishments, please tag the size of the office in some way.
Here there is the Wikipedia page [1]
There is a new proposal on the way covering more aspects of healthcare: Proposed features/Healthcare
Icon
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Slightly caligraphic rod of Asclepius by achadwick, in Mapnik's colour for its hospital icon. That can be changed, of course. Does it need to be more geometric? |
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Larger version of the rod of Asclepius currently being used by JOSM, for comparison (from SVN). |
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(Old) stethoscope icon by Sergionaranja. |
  
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(Old) variations on a theme by Sergionaranja. |
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(Old) green version of the hospital icon, by Batchoy. |
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(Old) Batchoy's tweaked colour version. |
Discussion
Please use the talk page.
Doctor is an academic title.
A professional healthcare expert is called
- medic
- paramedic
- healer
- midwife
- physiotherapist
- practitioner
Votes
Not open for voting yet
See also
- amenity=hospital
- amenity=doctors
- Proposed features/GP Surgery (tagged as amenity=doctors), which is invalid according to Rejected features.
- Proposed_features/Clinic_(Medical) (tagged as amenity=clinic), also invalid apparently, stuck somewhere in limbo between Draft and Proposed (but with no RFC having been posted).
- Healthcare 2.0
- healthcare
Similar expressions
- Possibilities for the key
- medical, medicine (qualified medical professionals only?)
- healthcare (covers more: opticians, for example)
- Possibilities for values
- health center, health centre
- surgery, GP's surgery
- clinic, polyclinic
- *ist (several Greek-derived terms for medical specialist)
- Possibilities for either
- physician, doctor, gp, arzt
