Talk:Sexual health clinic

message: Std clinic redirects to Sexual health clinic.
That suggests content.
--davidz (talk) 00:28, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Std clinic 

message: Medical service, including sexual health clinics, has standards of privacy and confidentiality.
In some jurisdictions anonymity only comes from the patient providing a false name, at the possible suggestion of the clinic.
Clinics should not tell, but mostly they do need to ask.
-- davidz (talk) 02:10, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Privacy, confidentiality, anonymity, and "don't-ask-don't-tell" 

message: This article could use a section on consent. Consent#Medicine fails to serve in this context. -- davidz (talk) 23:09, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Consent 

message: Sexual health clinics spend considerable thought, time, and effort on informing their patients.
Though "prevention" subsumes and implies "inform", the lead should explicitly mention "inform" as a major activity of sexual health clinics. -- davidz (talk) 01:01, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I would favor educate or counsel, rather than inform.  Get more of the sense of interaction/working with the client; to me inform connotes telling, without necessarily interacting/getting feedback/responding to client concerns.  Zodon (talk) 05:47, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Many clinics lack the time, resources, or funding to educate or counsel. They do inform, in the sense of telling and providing brochures. Clinics use the term inform. -- davidz (talk) 10:24, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Clinics also use the terms educate and counsel.  Many clinics do education and counseling.  Telling and providing brochures can just as easily be subsumed under education as informing.  Zodon (talk) 02:14, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The lead needs a lot of work and expansion. As the article grows it will suggest content for the lead. Inform, educate, and counsel, as distinct, may each need mention in the lead. -- davidz (talk) 08:12, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Lead 

message: While screening and diagnostic testing warrant explanation, they are important for every user of medical services to understand.  (What they mean, and the distinction between them.)  Certainly anyone receiving a Pap smear or STD test should know what they mean and what the difference is.  (Not should know as in be expected to know at the outset, but should know as in it should be explained.)  Zodon (talk) 06:21, 27 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Most clinics use the same tests whether diagnosing symptoms or doing general screening, with the exceptions of herpes and followup tests for HIV. The distinction, if need in an article describing sexual health clinics, will not fit in a list item and would need to go in a carefully written brief paragraph somewhere after the list of services. The distinction already exists in the article on STD testing. -- davidz (talk) 09:32, 1 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Screening and diagnosis

message: Changing one sentence or one list item per edit greatly facilitates following and modifying edits. -- davidz (talk) 00:53, 28 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: For this talk page too please. One topic per entry makes following and responding easier. -- davidz (talk) 20:45, 2 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Discrete atomic edits 

message: Seems like some of the recently added external links may not meet WP:EL.  While I haven't checked the content, they appear to be a series of links to directories to find STD clinics, which might fall under "Links to consider" #3.  So while a small selection of such might be appropriate, it seems like this is becoming a long list of such.  Perhaps we can find some web site that has aggregated such links and link to it instead? Zodon (talk) 08:19, 29 September 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: The putative readers of this article have little or no experience of sexual health clinics. They look for a description of what they can expect at a sexual health clinic. They also probably look for a sexual health clinic. The external links to listings of sexual health clinics in English speaking regions provide content relevant to the article and the readers. Wikipedia has guidelines, not rules, and use of the guidelines should support rather than diminish the useful content of articles. The article now exceeds a mere list of links, and these links enhance the content. Find a global directory of sexual health clinics if you can. So far, no unified directory exists for the US or for the UK. Further research may consolidate the list. Please create content. -- davidz (talk) 08:29, 1 October 2008 (UTC)

text: As this article is on the English language Wikipedia site, and covers a topic which varies regionally, appropriate links are needed. One way of keeping this list from overflowing would be to create Wikipedia:Stub pages for each English language region, with the appropriate external links. In order to encourage the involvement of other editors in this process, please leave the region list intact. Spam and vandalism are an unfortunate part of Wiki writing, but are preferable to Self-censorship. Altairah (talk) 07:56, 17 October 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I can understand the need to keep a list of clinics, but there are some (such as the one I just deleted) which are unambiguously advertising. It also wasnt much of a clinic, but a prescription by courier service, from what i understand, but maybe that's not germane. My feeling is that in the areas this is likely to cover, the clinics are likely listed in other directories, and we should link to said directories. -- [UseTheCommandLine ~/talk] #_  02:12, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  External links