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Welcome, I'd love to see more communities and content related to medicine on the fediverse :)
If it helps, part of my hope with !medicine@mander.xyz was that it would be used by medical professionals, similar to r/Medicine on Reddit (whom we've been in contact with, and from what I can tell we have a friendly relationship with). I just haven't had the time (or expertise) to pursue it further. Any content that could be posted in this new community would also be great on that one, and I'm happy to add more people as moderators or make changes to that community to have it better suit what people want. That way, it gets the boost of already having a good number of subscribers that are interested in that content.
No reason why there can't be more than one community! My reason for suggesting it is because there aren't that many medical professionals here on Lemmy yet, so it could help to coordinate a bit so we're not spread too thin. For example, encouraging posts in (or cross-posts to) the larger community at !medicine@mander.xyz and the such.
I love that you've already found some more medical professionals with this community :)
I wanted to create an atmosphere closer to the "water cooler hangout" type thing where we can interact with each other as fellow humans that all happen to be medical professionals with shared experiences and perspectives. The Medicine community seems more like a place for sharing articles/studies and the like than what I'm aiming for with a bigger emphasis on camaraderie and support.
Makes sense :)
That's what I wanted to see in !medicine@mander.xyz, but not being in the field currently myself it was hard to get discussions going, so I stuck to sharing articles I came across. Feel free to use the community as you'd like, I'd be happy just having a space for camaraderie / support / career discussions regardless of which community it happens on. Thanks for getting this going!