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Medical Questions. Having a medical issue? Ask a doctor or medical professional on Reddit! All flaired medical professionals on this subreddit are verified by the mods. Founded 2013 · 824.3K members

828.1K members. The best post we have captured here reached 67K upvotes, which works out to 81 per 1,000 members.

81peak upvotes per 1,000 members
828.1Kmembers
67Kbest post
5.8Kmost comments
422posts we track

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What actually lands here

The mix of post types among everything we have captured. Posting a link where almost nothing but images lands is wasted effort, and this is the fastest way to see it.

43% 36% 21%
Text 43% Image 36% Question 21%

The topics it labels

Flairs are the community's own categories, and the closest thing a subreddit has to telling you what it wants.

Physician Responded 170

What the ceiling looks like

The biggest posts we have captured here. Links go to the original on Reddit.

41yo suboxone patient with lung cancer. I don't mean to keep pestering this sub, but I thought I'd drop in to say good-bye. The cancer is in my heart…

↑ 67K 💬 5.8K text 2020

Update on Robbie from Cherri

↑ 6.6K 💬 437 text 2020

I’m babysitting my sister and she thinks she needs to go to the ER for her period and idk

↑ 6.3K 💬 1.1K text 2024

12 year old daughter agreed to her shots

↑ 5.4K 💬 117 text 2025

Daughters pediatrician made EXTREMELY inappropriate remark to her

↑ 4.8K 💬 722 text 2026

Doc on here saved my life

↑ 4.1K 💬 160 text 2023

Update - Cancer detection dog!

↑ 3.9K 💬 138 image 2026

One of you figured out my sisters diagnosis before the ER did

↑ 3.9K 💬 5 text 2024

Im the dumbass who almost let his sister bleed out on her period

↑ 3.6K 💬 246 text 2024

2 year old male tongue laceration healing process

↑ 3.6K 💬 162 image 2026

Communities its size

Within four times the member count either way, so the comparison is fair. Sorted by upside.

r/AskDocs, in numbers

Answered from the posts ViralHunt holds from this community, not from Reddit's own about page.

What is r/AskDocs?
r/AskDocs ("Medical Questions") describes itself this way: Having a medical issue? Ask a doctor or medical professional on Reddit! All flaired medical professionals on this subreddit are verified by the mods. It was founded in 2013 and has 824.3K members.
How many members does r/AskDocs have?
r/AskDocs has about 828.1K members. ViralHunt has tracked 422 of its posts; the biggest reached 67K upvotes, which is 81 per 1,000 members.
What is the most viral post on r/AskDocs?
"41yo suboxone patient with lung cancer. I don't mean to keep pestering this sub, but I thought I'd drop in to say good-bye. The cancer is in" reached 67K upvotes and 5.8K comments in 2020, the highest score among the posts we hold from r/AskDocs.
What subreddits are similar to r/AskDocs?
Communities of a comparable size we track: r/popculture, r/ProgressiveHQ, r/StarWarsBattlefront, r/NoFilterNews, r/BlackPeopleofReddit, r/Archaeology.
What kind of posts do best on r/AskDocs?
Of the posts we hold, 43% are text posts and 36% are image posts.
When is the best time to post on r/AskDocs?
Across 422 timestamped posts we hold, the slots whose posts averaged the highest score are Saturday at 13:00 UTC (2.5K avg upvotes), Wednesday at 19:00 UTC (2.1K avg upvotes), Sunday at 22:00 UTC (1.2K avg upvotes). The busiest day is Sunday. For Reddit as a whole, see the best time to post on Reddit page.
How many upvotes does a post need to reach the top of r/AskDocs?
The 20th-best post we hold from r/AskDocs has 2.7K upvotes, so that is roughly the bar for the top twenty. We captured 309 posts from it in the last 30 days.

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Every figure here is what ViralHunt has captured from r/AskDocs, not everything the community has ever posted. We deliberately do not publish an average score: our sample is weighted toward a community's best posts, so an average would be flattering and wrong. Peak per 1,000 members is computed the same way for every community listed. See how we measure.