This is a fantastic tool, I have no doubt that it could help de-obfuscate the misconduct side of medicine, which most people have no idea even exists. Thank you for working on this!
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#12That's a really interesting project !
One pet peeve, though. Some entries have "Arbitration Award" listed as an action. However, these usually mean that the physician won an arbitration case (i.e. the ruling was in their favour). Listing them without any differentiation can potentially negatively bias a person's opinion against a perfectly honest doctor.
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#13Very nice data! Interesting when paired with (also front page) 'The Prosecutor's Fallacy' https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37819637
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#14Absolutely incredible. I wish something like this existed for Germany.
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#15I just read one of these via your site at random. Holy crap, talk about incompetence! https://web.archive.org/web/0/https://www2.mbc.ca.gov/PDL/do...
I also partially read a random one [0], about a doctor who had his license revoked for 3 years. Tearing a patient's nerve because he lost a tool and other worse cases (page 17)
[0] https://web.archive.org/web/20230925064351/https://www2.mbc....
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#16Excellent, thank you for creating this. Just learning that this data is available. Only California? Are the other states not making the data available in the same fashion as CA? Also, was there a personal trigger for you to create this?
In Washington, this information can be gleaned on a small scale from the Department of Health's Provider Credential Search - https://doh.wa.gov/licenses-permits-and-certificates/provide...
And the higher volume Open Data Portal dataset: https://data.wa.gov/Health/Health-Care-Provider-Credential-D...
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#17That's a really interesting project ! One pet peeve, though. Some entries have "Arbitration Award" listed as an action. However, these usually mean that the physician won an arbitration case (i.e. the ruling was in their favour). Listing them without any differentiation can potentially negatively bias a person's opinion against a perfectly honest doctor.
This may be a character flaw on my part, but I’d be a little bit worried or at least curious about a doctor who’s had a lot of arbitration cases relative to their career length, even if they’ve won them.
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#18I just read one of these via your site at random. Holy crap, talk about incompetence! https://web.archive.org/web/0/https://www2.mbc.ca.gov/PDL/do...
Here's a quote from one I randomly clicked on:
>Respondent admits that there were billings for 35 treatments apiece for two undercover law enforcement officers when each had only five visits. Further, he acknowledged that had he known the true facts, he would have investigated further. However, had he been vigilant, respondent does not believe that he would have detected the problem because patient signatures, as evidence that the patient received treatment, were forged after he issued his reports.
I didn't realize that undercover agents were/are doing sting operations for insurance fraud. (And I don't understand the part about forged signatures...)
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#19Two bug reports:
1. When I search by "Malpractice Settlements", I get a "Minified React error #31" on every result I click on.
2. You're doing something horrible with the back button - I clicked on one result and had to click the back button 10 times to get out of your site.
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#20Thank you! This is such a useful site! Probably only possible in US since any other country restricts access to such records only for law enforcement which is a shame.