A private space for colleagues, not another platform to post on

• Second opinions

  A structured request — age band, presentation, relevant history, what you've tried, your specific question — put to a specialty, a group, or named colleagues. Only the people you asked can read it.

• Case rooms and teaching cases

  Cross-specialty discussion, and a way to turn a resolved case into an anonymised teaching case once every colleague who replied has agreed to be quoted.

• Journal club

  A thread built on a paper — give the DOI and AskHer looks up the title and journal. Four standing prompts: what changes practice, limitations, applicable in India, who should read this.

• Workload and career, separate from clinical cases

  Groups for burnout, practice and career decisions, and professional advocacy — peer support, deliberately kept apart from case discussion.

• Direct messages

  Private, between two checked doctors, screened the same way as everything else. Nobody who isn't a doctor can message you.

• · No patient details, ever. A name, hospital or UHID number, date of birth, phone number or an age-and-sex line is refused outright and not saved — not flagged for someone to read later.
• · No attachments. No images or files, at launch and by design.
• · Nothing commercial. Referral requests, clinic promotion and affiliate links are refused.
• · No likes, scores or leaderboards. Among clinicians, a score would make the loudest specialty look like the most correct one.
• · No pseudonyms. Unlike the women's or men's circles on the public side, accountability is the point here — an anonymous clinical opinion is a rumour.

Doctors whose registration AskHer has checked, who have accepted the contributor agreement, and who are set up for this community — AskHer and AskHim are kept separate. Members of the public can never reach it, under any circumstances: it isn't a locked section of the public site, it's a different space entirely.

A suspension closes it on your next click. Joining a group is private — nobody, staff included, can see which groups you belong to, or how many members a group has.

There's no separate signup for this specifically — it opens as part of the same registration check every contributing clinician goes through. Apply once, and once your registration is checked, the peer community opens alongside the rest of the Studio.

Already checked and signed in? Open the peer community.