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Re: Show HN: Explore doctors' disciplinary history

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Post by sicromoft »

This is great to see. Some feedback: I entered the exact name of a doctor I knew would be in the database, formatted as "firstName lastName". The result was buried under 20 other less relevant matches. I had to search as "lastName, firstName", for it to come back as the first result.

Re: Show HN: Explore doctors' disciplinary history

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Post by codeTired »

jamesfly wrote: post #4
omarfarooq wrote: post #2

Excellent, 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?

Thank you. This data should be available in all states, but each state has a proprietary site I have to write a new scraper for and write a new data pipeline for. I'm thinking about open-sourcing the project and gathering community support for the rest now that I have a good pattern set. Yes, I was harmed by a doctor and the medical board dismissed my complaint. This made me curious about what the board actually does…

I’m interested in helping out.

I have done a lot of research in medicine due to my poor experiences with even top specialists. Ignoring symptoms, denying side effects of meds I took, even though those were present on the label.

Do you have a discord?

Any plans on allowing people to comment on physicians?

Any plans of adding how much doctors have received from corporate interests?(as this data is available)

Re: Show HN: Explore doctors' disciplinary history

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Post by radlad »

jamesfly wrote: post #4
omarfarooq wrote: post #2

Excellent, 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?

Thank you. This data should be available in all states, but each state has a proprietary site I have to write a new scraper for and write a new data pipeline for. I'm thinking about open-sourcing the project and gathering community support for the rest now that I have a good pattern set. Yes, I was harmed by a doctor and the medical board dismissed my complaint. This made me curious about what the board actually does…

I'm also interested in writing a scraper for my site (Michigan) if time allows.

Re: Show HN: Explore doctors' disciplinary history

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Post by briffle »

sicromoft wrote: post #21

This is great to see. Some feedback: I entered the exact name of a doctor I knew would be in the database, formatted as "firstName lastName". The result was buried under 20 other less relevant matches. I had to search as "lastName, firstName", for it to come back as the first result.

I noticed when zooming in on the map, the light blue color is almost identical to what the map shows as lakes/ponds/water etc.

Re: Show HN: Explore doctors' disciplinary history

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Post by noman-land »

jamesfly wrote: post #4
omarfarooq wrote: post #2

Excellent, 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?

Thank you. This data should be available in all states, but each state has a proprietary site I have to write a new scraper for and write a new data pipeline for. I'm thinking about open-sourcing the project and gathering community support for the rest now that I have a good pattern set. Yes, I was harmed by a doctor and the medical board dismissed my complaint. This made me curious about what the board actually does…

Please open source this. I would love to help.

Re: Show HN: Explore doctors' disciplinary history

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Post by sdossick »

bee_rider wrote: post #17
born2discover wrote: post #12

That'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.

Depending on the specialty of the doctor, they will get pulled into more or fewer malpractice cases. Obstetricians vs Dermatologists for instance.

So you might want to examine a doctor's record vs the median for that kind of doctor...

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