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How long can this site be popular if everybody is asked to see a doctor?
SE is not going to start giving individual medical advice, for many reasons.
I absolutely do understand why people want answers to what is going on with their health. That is part of why I chose my ...
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Quality of References
Excellent Sources
Sources that provide information based on validated clinical decision rules, meta-analysis of high-quality studies, etc.
International, national, state governmental health websites (...
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Refocusing from Health to Medical Sciences
For convenience, I'm quoting the Area 51 proposal as suggested by Narusan in comments.
https://area51.meta.stackexchange.com/questions/27306/definition-and-scope-of-medical-sciences
Definition
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Defibrillating Health.SE
I was directed to this question by a user and asked for input. I would not have volunteered this opinion otherwise.
I believe this site is already dead in the water. At best, it was treading water in ...
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Why is my question closed as "off-topic" for this site?
I'll give you a different example:
During a large festival, a patient's face turns pale, they start to sweat a lot, they have a difficulty breathing, and they don't feel so well.
What could this ...
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Site Name Change & Scope Redefinition
I have pinged the mod team twice and have not heard from them yet. I will wait until the end of day and update here. I'm thinking that the next step will be to change the site name. If there are no ...
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Should we initiate assisted dying?
Yes and No
I think the site could still be viable. As the site currently stands, it is a pool of dreck, constituting a lot of the worst beliefs and misconceptions about health. I think that is one of ...
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Am I allowed to answer questions if I'm not a medical professional?
We welcome all contributions. We cannot ascertain your professional credentials in any way anyway.
If the answer is good, then that is all that counts. You seem to have read the relevant parts of ...
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Migration options
As I understand the policies, it takes for us to get out of beta:
Beta sites don't have default migration paths (although moderators can still migrate to/from)
and for the target sites to be out ...
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2018 Community Moderator Election Results
Congratulations!
May you enjoy life and art, respected while you serve as a Pro-Tempore
Moderator and remembered with affection thereafter. May you always act
so as to preserve the finest ...
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Break up Medical Sciences Stack Exchange
I understand your frustration. I am all for disseminating medical knowledge. That's why I studied medicine and why I choose to come here.
I too was frustrated with the lack of being able to ask/...
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How can we change laws / forum policy to allow basic MRI questions?
Did you look at the questions to see why they were closed? The closures of MRI questions follow the same approximate closure rate for all questions on MedSci, with the two leading reasons being 1) the ...
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Site Name Change & Scope Redefinition
Presuming "Medical Sciences" will be the new name, I propose "Med" as a shorthand for the icon to replace the "H" rather than "MS."
Bryan KrauseMod
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Why is my question closed as "off-topic" for this site?
Good answers here. Interesting to see a rehash of this discussion on hot meta questions. The @DoctorWhom answer to the related question is excellent, but I thought I'd add my understanding of the ...
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What sort of nutrition or environmental questions are suitable now?
I agree with the comments that almost every nutrition question asked here should not be accepted here (and most are quickly closed). However, for the sake of argument, I can think of a few situations (...
Bryan KrauseMod
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Could we request mods to step down?
To lead off, Stack Exchange has a lot of long-running beta sites and we (the community team) really didn't intend communities to go years before getting their first election. I have an idea about how ...
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Your Input regarding the Future of Health.SE
What do you think of the scope?
It's a mess. Personally, I'd exclude food sciences because the issue is so debatable and I haven't seen any good question about food sciences. It is important to ...
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Curbing spammy and often downright disgusting "NSFW"/indecent questions
The answer to this is a flat-out no because it's a meta-tag and provides no meaningful information to what the question is about whatsoever. We don't allow tags like that. But let's also dive into ...
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Should we initiate assisted dying?
I'm all for dying with dignity, and I want to be able to do that in my personal life as well. But not everyone feels that way, There are always those that cling to the small possibility that the dying ...
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39 questions of mine deleted, and counting. How do you expect users to write well written questions?
All of the automatic deletion criteria are listed in this meta post. Since yours appear to fall into the second category, I will list those criteria here:
If the question is more than 365 days old, ...
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Why is my question closed as "off-topic" for this site?
I appreciate the extensive explanation. And welcome back. Same to anyone else who returns to HealthSE and wonders "wtf is happening here?" We would love to have more active users.
Those of us who ...
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Are "did my doctor do the wrong thing" questions off topic here?
I think this type of question is actually worse than requests for medical advice. It asks us to judge the words and actions of a doctor based solely on hearsay from a stranger of unknown reliability, ...
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Why was my post about ALT-Levels closed as off-topic?
I closed it because it's clearly a request for personal medical advice. It also asks us to judge your doctor's opinion. It has been the community's consensus since the site was formed that we cannot ...
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Mismatch between on-topic and off-topic with Seasoned Advice
Although I'm aware of the limitation on nutrition questions on Seasoned Advice and I bet @michaelpri is too, I agree the language needs to be cleaned up for users and future mods.
Frankly, the ...
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Close-vote threshold lowered to three
Yes, we should. The reasons for this change include:
Vanishingly few questions here are closed by the community gathering 5 votes without a moderator being involved, as can be seen in the latest ...
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Is this site suitable for laypeople asking questions and expecting non-technical answers?
The tour for Medical Sciences states:
Medical Sciences Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for professionals in medical and allied health fields, students of those professions, related ...
Ian CampbellMod
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Defibrillating Health.SE
Regarding Expertise
I've been following the progress of this site from a distance, but I've gotten a strong sense of angst about whether this subject is even something that should be represented on ...
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Rethinking our Site Name
Medical Sciences
Pro:
it isn't misleading regarding personal medical advice
consistency with our sister-site, CognitiveSciences it is now renamed as Psychology and Neuroscience
represents site scope ...
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answer referring to hadithes deleted
And answers from Chinese Traditional Medicine would also likely be deleted since we're after science based observations that have been rigorously replicated. If you believe fasting has been tested in ...
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Site Name Change & Scope Redefinition
I just visited the site for the first time in several weeks and wow, the front page looks much better now. Good job everybody!
(I know; this isn't really an answer to this question. But this seemed ...
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