Talk:fever clinic
Latest comment: 3 years ago by Dentonius in topic RFD discussion: November–December 2020
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I have changed the definition because it was too specific, but I think the definition is SOP now. See also the citation page. ←₰-→ Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk) 19:09, 27 November 2020 (UTC)
- Expanded rationale: A clinic is "a medical facility, such as a hospital, especially one for the treatment and diagnosis of outpatients", a fever is "a higher than normal body temperature of a person (or, generally, a mammal), usually caused by disease". Fever clinics are set up when there is a contagious disease outbreak that includes fever as a symptom, to diagnose people with fever (and to provide treatment if possible and necessary) to verify what caused the fever; isolation is necessary to prevent fever clinics from being hotbeds.
←₰-→Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk) 12:56, 1 December 2020 (UTC)
- Expanded rationale: A clinic is "a medical facility, such as a hospital, especially one for the treatment and diagnosis of outpatients", a fever is "a higher than normal body temperature of a person (or, generally, a mammal), usually caused by disease". Fever clinics are set up when there is a contagious disease outbreak that includes fever as a symptom, to diagnose people with fever (and to provide treatment if possible and necessary) to verify what caused the fever; isolation is necessary to prevent fever clinics from being hotbeds.
- Keep. ---> Tooironic (talk) 20:24, 28 November 2020 (UTC)
- @Tooironic What is your reason for voting this way?
←₰-→Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk) 12:56, 1 December 2020 (UTC)- It's idiomatic — "diagnose people with fever in isolation" is not contained in either "fever" or "clinic". ---> Tooironic (talk) 22:14, 1 December 2020 (UTC)
- @Tooironic What is your reason for voting this way?
- Keep at least because of the "in isolation" part. Troll Control (talk) 12:23, 30 November 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks for responding substantively. I think this is not a clear-cut matter either way; the isolation could be said to 'obviously follow' from the fact that many diseases that have fever as a symptom are contagious and there is an obvious need to avoid additional infections, but it is indeed something that requires some background knowledge that is not present in the parts.
←₰-→Lingo Bingo Dingo (talk) 12:56, 1 December 2020 (UTC)
- Thanks for responding substantively. I think this is not a clear-cut matter either way; the isolation could be said to 'obviously follow' from the fact that many diseases that have fever as a symptom are contagious and there is an obvious need to avoid additional infections, but it is indeed something that requires some background knowledge that is not present in the parts.
- Weak meh. Mihia (talk) 15:18, 5 December 2020 (UTC)
RFD kept — Dentonius 10:55, 16 December 2020 (UTC)