this post was submitted on 27 Jun 2023
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This subreddit was created due to a flood of patient questions in various other eye-related communities.
However, given that medical advice over the internet cannot be given without an exam, and that legal liability is tremendously high for telling someone "eh, it's probably nothing, don't worry," please understand that it is likely that many of your less pressing questions may not receive satisfactory answers.
Rules
- 1: online advice can never replace an actual in person medical examination.
- 2: no spamming or multiple posts about the same topic, this includes posts across other communities.
- 3: anxiety driven posts are not welcome.
- 4: posts must contain enough details. At the very least you should include your
- main complaint including:
- onset of complaints
- duration of complaints
- affected eye(s)
- any treatment you've tried so far
- age
- gender (biological)
- prior ophthalmic conditions
- medication and/or drug usage
- systemic conditions if present
- main complaint including:
- 5: no questions about aftercare after surgery.
- 6: don't remove old posts and/or create new accounts.
- 7: don't post personal data of your doctor.
- 8: don't give advice on subjects you're not familiar with. Advice that's considered bad or even harmful will be removed.
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I guess that's up to you, but eyetriage is usually compared with communities like askdocs. One could look at it from 2 perspectives; from the complaint (then your category is correct), or from the type of question the people may have (diagnostic vs support group); that'd require a new category I suppose.
I'll place it under vision for the time being, and I guess we'll see how it develops. Communities can grow into other things than were intended. I'm not familiar with the original Reddit sub and I'm not seeing any askdocs-style communities here yet.
Meanwhile feel free to make a post at [email protected] introducing your community (or I can, but you'll probably describe it better).