Talk:Osteopathic family physicians

I am trying to to start an osteopathic family physician page -- it was deleted before I had a change to finish it. Please give it a week so that I can populate the information and also have some OFP's include their information as well.

WP:CSD, JSYN. Read it, please...M1N (talk) 17:19, 3 March 2008 (UTC)


 * There are several reasons this article keeps getting deleted, and it will probably be deleted again. The main reason I think this is happening is that the content is not suited for its own Wikipedia article.  If you look at your current Osteopathic family physicians, most of the content is redundant from other articles and no content really relates solely to "osteopathic family physicians."  There is no mention of what a family physician is (which I discuss more below).  The infrastructure section is about the history of osteopathic medicine, which should be in Osteopathic medicine in the United States.  "Medical Students Play a Part in Osteopathic Family Physician History" is entirely about ACOFM, and should be in the American College of Osteopathic Family Physicians article.  The "Certification as a Board Certified Osteopathic Family Physician" section should be in an article entitled American Osteopathic Board of Family Physicians (see also American Osteopathic Association Bureau of Osteopathic Specialists).  The list of osteopathic medical schools does not belong here.  It is already in List of medical schools in the United States and Osteopathic medicine in the United States.  Moving all this content to the appropriate articles leaves nothing left for "Osteopathic family physicians," as this article should not exist.


 * Also, there are no other articles about specialized physicians. There are few medicine-related articles about types of physicians, as this information is provided elsewhere.  For example, take any medical specialty and add "-ist" to the end, describing a physician who practices in that specialty.  You will find that all these articles redirect to the medical specialty itself, which then gives some information on the physician as well as the specialty.  It would be mostly redundant to have an article on Neurology and Neurologist.  This article would be the equivalent of something like "Osteopathic cardiologist" or "Osteopathic neurologist," which should not have their own articles.


 * If you want to focus your efforts on osteopathic principles within family medicine, I'd suggest you first create an article titled Family medicine. It currently redirects to General practitioner, which is inappropriate, given that there family medicine is a distinct specialty in its own right.  Anything that distinguishes osteopathic physicians could be noted here, or probably more appropriately in osteopathic medicine in the United States.  In any case, an article on family medicine should definitely be created before writing about a narrow sub-topic within the field.  --Scott Alter 19:44, 7 March 2008 (UTC)


 * What is the intent of this article? It is entirely redundant to articles already in existence.   Bryan Hopping  T  20:57, 7 March 2008 (UTC)