r/medicine
/r/medicine: a subreddit for medical professionals
Founded March 2008 · Public — anyone can post
r/medicine is a virtual lounge for physicians and other medical professionals from around the world to talk about the latest advances, controversies, ask questions of each other, have a laugh, or share a difficult moment. This is a highly moderated subreddit. Please read the rules carefully before posting or commenting. User flair is now required to post here.
Members
569,960
570K
Online now
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not captured in the last snapshot
Posts per day
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no sample yet
Comments per post
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no sample yet
Growth · 7d
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not enough history yet
Growth · 30d
+0.5%
+3K members · ≈30d
Published rules
11
4 mention promotion — quoted below
Last post
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no sample yet
Distinct posters
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no sample yet
Tracking since Sep 7 · growth spans are the real distance between snapshots, not rounded windows. Posts/day is measured from the community’s own newest posts on Reddit, not from what Prowlo happens to crawl.
Member growth
What works in r/medicine
Every post in a recent sample, labelled by format. Share is how much of the sample used that format; average score is how it performed.
| Format | Share of posts | Avg score |
|---|---|---|
| News / link | 26% | 1,006 |
| Discussion | 23% | 1,034 |
| Rant | 23% | 809 |
| Question | 14% | 440 |
| Lessons / story | 13% | 1,776 |
| Promo | 1% | 2 |
Based on 70 posts sampled in September 2026. A sample, not the full history.
- Median score
- 480
- Top 10% score
- 1,980
- Text posts
- 100%
- Got no replies
- 1%
- Busiest windows
- Mon 00:00 UTC
Posting rules, in plain words
Self-promotion is banned. Post flair is required. Minimum 10 karma. Account must be 7 days old.
- No promotions, advertisements, surveys, or petitions: Surveys (formal or informal) and polls are not allowed on this subreddit. You may not use the subreddit to recruit for research or to promote your website, channel, subreddit, or product. No petitions or market research. Advertising, fundraising, or spam may result in a permanent ban. Prior permission is required before posting educational material you were involved in making.
- All submissions require user flair. All posts require commentary and context.: You must set appropriate user flair to post or comment for context and to demonstrate a minimum effort to follow subreddit rules. All posts require a sufficient text description in the body of the post for context to explain why the link is of interest to the community and to start the conversation. Posts/comments without user flair will be immediately filtered, and posts without commentary included will be removed upon discovery.
- No throwaway accounts.: Posts from user accounts less than one week old and/or with less than 10 comment karma are not allowed.
Quoted from the community’s own published rules. Always re-read them before posting.
What a good comment looks like here
- — Expresses empathy and solidarity with the original poster or other commenters.
- — Shares personal experiences or observations relevant to the topic.
- — Provides additional context or details to the discussion.
- — Uses strong, often emotional, language to convey frustration or support.
- — Offers practical advice or alternative perspectives from a medical professional's viewpoint.
- — Directly addresses points made in the original post or other comments.
What r/medicine's rules say about promotion
4 of 11 published rules mention promotion, advertising or spam. Quoted from the community's own rules page, not summarised.
No personal stories or situations. No requests for medical advice or information.
rule 2 of 11
This is not a question-and-answer forum such as /r/askreddit. You may not solicit medical advice or share personal health anecdotes about yourself, family, acquaintances, or celebrities, seek comments on care provided by other clinicians, discuss billing disputes, or otherwise seek a professional opinion from members of the subreddit. General queries about medical conditions, prognosis, drugs, or other medical topics from the lay public are not allowed.
Removal reason shown to posters: No personal health situations, requests for advice, or layperson questions
No promotions, advertisements, surveys, or petitions
rule 3 of 11
Surveys (formal or informal) and polls are not allowed on this subreddit. You may not use the subreddit to recruit for research or to promote your website, channel, subreddit, or product. No petitions or market research. Advertising, fundraising, or spam may result in a permanent ban. Prior permission is required before posting educational material you were involved in making.
Removal reason shown to posters: No promotional activity
Link to high-quality, original research whenever possible.
rule 4 of 11
Posts which rely on or reference scientific data (e.g. an announcement about a medical breakthrough) should link to the original research in peer-reviewed medical journals or respectable news sources as judged by the moderators. Avoid login or paywall requirements when possible. Please submit direct links to PDFs as text/self posts with the link in the text. Sensationalized titles, misrepresentation of results, or promotion of blatantly bad science may lead to removal.
Removal reason shown to posters: Original research/paywall/sensationalised
No anti-science/medicine nonsense
rule 11 of 11
r/medicine isn't the place for your anti-science/medicine viewpoints. If you want to "just ask questions" about things like vaccines or basic medical knowledge, or you want to promote pseudoscience, go somewhere else. We do not want it here. If you want to claim something outside the norms, you are required to provide valid evidence that you have a real basis for the claim.
The other 7
- All submissions require user flair. All posts require commentary and context.
- Act professionally and decently.
- No personal agendas or "single topic" commentary
- Protect patient confidentiality
- No career, job, school, premed, or homework questions.
- No throwaway accounts.
- No memes/low-effort/AI/general news
Read from r/medicine’s published rules on Sep 7. Communities change their rules without notice and enforce requirements (karma, account age, flair) that may live in the sidebar or automod rather than here — the source page is the authority.
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r/medicine — frequently asked
How many members does r/medicine have?
r/medicine has 569,960 members as of our most recent crawl on Oct 7. Prowlo re-checks tracked communities on a rolling schedule, so this figure moves rather than sitting frozen at whatever it was when a scraper last ran.
Is r/medicine growing?
Over the last ≈30 days r/medicine changed by +0.5% — a gain of 3K members. We compare against the nearest snapshot we actually hold and state the real span rather than rounding it to a clean "30 days".
How active is r/medicine?
We don't have a reliable posting-rate sample for r/medicine yet. Subscriber count alone is a poor guide to whether a community is active, so treat this one as unverified until the next sample lands.
When was r/medicine created?
r/medicine was founded in March 2008 and is a public — anyone can post community. Age matters: an older community with steady growth has survived Reddit's moderation churn; a young one with a spike may not.
Can I promote my product in r/medicine?
r/medicine publishes 11 rules and 4 of them address promotion. The first, “No personal stories or situations. No requests for medical advice or information.”, says: This is not a question-and-answer forum such as /r/askreddit. You may not solicit medical advice or share personal health anecdotes about yourself, family, acquaintances, or celebrities, seek comments on care provided… Read the full rule text on this page and the community's rules page before posting — moderator enforcement is the thing that actually decides.
How do I monitor r/medicine for mentions?
Hit Watch on this page. Prowlo starts crawling r/medicine into your Dataset — every new post indexed and embedded, searchable semantically, queryable by your AI agent over MCP, and able to trigger keyword alerts in Slack. Prowlo is read-only; it never posts on your behalf.
Can my AI agent read r/medicine's stats?
Yes. Everything on this page is one MCP tool call away: catalog_get_subreddit returns r/medicine's members, growth, promo tolerance and similar communities as typed JSON — free, no credits. Connect your agent to api.prowlo.com/mcp and it can vet the community and start watching it in the same conversation.
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