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I think everyone agrees, but it is a first amendment nightmare to try and regulate.
We already prohibit advertising for cigarettes (on broadcast TV and print), so this doesn't seem like that much of a stretch.
“ Medicine has become a three-way negotiation between you, your doctor, and The Algorithm.” This characterization makes it sound like a good thing. In reality, the doctor’s responsibility is being pushed to the patient because they are overbooked in the name of economic efficiency. As a patient with complex, non-specific medical condition, I can tell you how miserable this is. I can’t count on doctors _at all_ to mov…
> Gatekeepers that block access to potential treatment pathways until you can convince them it’s worth a try. You assume they actually know what needs to be done. In my experience, you can see they don't have a clue and aren't willing to do research to learn. They just hand out their usual prescriptions, etc and sometimes hope an exam will give them an obvious answer. On top of that, most doctors only have a very nar…
The biggest problem with Google and medicine are the summary boxes and QA widgets up top, matching a search term to an excerpt. It's hilariously bad, it pulls misleading info out of context. It is probably responsible for more than zero deaths worldwide.
It's really weird. One of the widget boxes rephrases some of your search into explicit questions, and then the result is an out-of-context snippet that is definitely not answering the question.
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> Gatekeepers that block access to potential treatment pathways until you can convince them it’s worth a try. You assume they actually know what needs to be done. In my experience, you can see they don't have a clue and aren't willing to do research to learn. They just hand out their usual prescriptions, etc and sometimes hope an exam will give them an obvious answer. On top of that, most doctors only have a very nar…
I‘m really not trying to sound snarky, but - is this the supposedly high quality treatment that U.S. citizens get that is so much more expensive as opposed to the „socialized“ insurance we get in Europe that is cheaper for everybody and supposedly therefore not as good/cutting edge?
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What is your point? Did the author write something which indicates they think Google is an ethical company?
The point is obvious but I'll spell it out for you using HIS own words. "Google almost convinced me to spend $400 on useless laser treatments". He presents himself as "in the know" because the year begins with "2" and anyone in the know would use Google to research an issue. LOL. HE then proceeds to place trust in an unethical company to give him information he needs to make a wise financial decision. Doh!
This is a great article. How do we fix it? We are experiencing late stage capitalism at every turn in our lives. I don’t know where to start. Regulations? But Google has moles in every level of government. A real search competitor? It feels impossible to think it could happen at scale. There is a niche for a company that is like the original Google and that could grow. How can we help it succeed?
> This was my motivation for starting GlacierMD: I wanted to give consumers the information they needed to make evidence-based health decisions. And although I lost that battle (spectacularly) I'm still fighting the war! If this is a topic that interests you, I'd urge you to
Maybe it has always been this way, but anecdotally it feels like it has gotten so much worse in the last few years.
The exception to the SEO spam rule seems to be a small subset of “highly trusted sources”, that at least for medical information seem to be biased pretty heavily towards “don’t say anything that can get us sued.”
I don’t know the best solution to all of this, but I really think that content marketing is getting to a point where it has drowned out actual content. I wish Google would put a downvote button on their search results page that I can click to indicate that a highly-SEO’d result was not actually useful for my query.
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What is your point? Did the author write something which indicates they think Google is an ethical company?
The point is obvious but I'll spell it out for you using HIS own words. "Google almost convinced me to spend $400 on useless laser treatments". He presents himself as "in the know" because the year begins with "2" and anyone in the know would use Google to research an issue. LOL. HE then proceeds to place trust in an unethical company to give him information he needs to make a wise financial decision. Doh!
> In the pre-Szaszian era, medicine was something that happened to you. You would put your health in your doctor's hands and they would unilaterally decide your course of treatment. But in today's patient-centered world, doctors are more like consultants To be honest I've only seen this level of "patient-centered" stuff in the US. Never heard the phrase "Ask your doctor about xy" anywhere but on US TV. Sometimes pret…
Broadly, it's because the US has a culture of individual sovereignty and not everyone being a ward of the state.