Medical Professionals

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This is a community for physicians, PAs, NPs, Nurses, Paramedics, EMTs, CNAs, LPNs, students of medical disciplines, and folks interested in joining the field.

Rules: 1. No discrimination, bigotry, intolerance, or harassment allowed. Instances of such behavior will be deleted, and users with multiple offenses will be banned.

2. Please do not post personal medical questions here. Case reports for discussion are fine, but if you're looking for medical advice, you should consult a physician IRL. If you are trying to figure out what kind of specialist to go to, post a comment to the pinned post.

3. No marketing or advertising of commercial products. Recommendations based on personal experience for educational resources are fine, but outright advertisement is not.

4. Be rad to each other. This field is rough enough as it is, no need to tear each other down. If you have a critical opinion of something, present your arguments as critique of policies or practices in a respectful manner. (e.g. discussions about scope of practice for APPs)

5. PLEASE REPORT THINGS THAT BREAK THE RULES! (At the moment, there is one of me, and I am a medical student with pudding for brains and slim to none in the way of free time [yay clinicals!], so help me out here :D)

6. Flag NSFW/NSFL posts appropriately. If you've been in the field more than a couple months, you've probably got your own little pile of PTSD already, but give folks a warning if you're going to be talking about gnarly stuff. Not everyone is in a good headspace to deal with trauma-dumping or over-sharing. (Note: Discussions of painful or traumatic experiences are allowed, just give folks a heads up before they click.)

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medgremlin@midwest.social

Introductions and looking for friends! (midwest.social)

submitted 3 days ago by medgremlin@midwest.social to c/medical_professionals@midwest.social

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Post here with your title/role/qualifications and whatnot if you want to. If you want to post a region or field to look for folks in your area to network a bit, this is the place to do it!

Be respectful of people's privacy and do not dig for details. Put a note in the top of your comment if you are open to messages and/or questions.

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[–] otter@lemmy.ca 2 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

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 :)