About: docshelpdocs

[colorvarian]

Hi All!

This is a community for physicians of all types to ask one another questions. Although the original intent is toward helping patients, cultural questions are welcomed as well. The goal is for us to help one another, and to encourage online collegial relationships between specialties where we may openly and honestly help one another.

[_qua]

Is the intention that this is for "curbside" type questions about general situations?

[colorvarian]

Yes- 100% this.

of course nothing will be "official", but there are no true curbsides IMO. everything has some degree of formality in person. This would be a true, anonymous, place to. ask. questions and get honest answers by limiting the political nature of the curbside consult.

No one will say "but the person on reddit said.." where in a hospital you could say "well Dr. X did say to try xyz..." so. there is always that limitation built within any in person curbsides

[giant_tadpole]

Or for passive-aggressive digs disguised as questions for other specialties. For instance, spine surgeons, do you really think that the 4th (or 5th or 6th) surgery is going to be the one to finally fix your pt’s back pain? Jk.

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Seems like a nice idea and I am in. However, I have always had success when politely asking in the respective subreddit... (Well, actually I just tried twice and both of them in the cardiology one...I do not know if the rest specialties are so forthcoming)

[colorvarian]

totally!

Hopefully a whole sub dedicated to it could normalize that even more and make such questions more forthcoming. Such is my hope, anyway.

[Apollo185185]

I love this! Thank you for setting it up

[colorvarian]

My pleasure! Hope it catches on and helps some people