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Note: California ONLY. (commment: pity all states don't publish this in machine-readable formats. Id say this is more important than the monthly food report in the nnewspaper.)
Thank you for this. The medical industry is in dire need of transparency. Next up would be pricing and costs!
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.
I also want to mention that patients are forced into arbitration via the contract for service they initially sign [2] that many don't read (whether due their inability to understand it or time constraints on needing immediate care and limited availability of doctors). However, I think it's a shady practice that hurts patients [3] and it would be worth keeping the data showing doctors taking advantage of it regardless. The main excerpt from the article supporting my thoughts is "Doctors’ attorneys are more likely to develop relationships with the arbitrators, they say, who, in turn, may give the plaintiff only a token award to get continued business from doctors."
[1] https://search.dca.ca.gov/details/8002/G/77959/9df8d122bd5b5...
[2] https://law.justia.com/codes/california/2007/ccp/1295.html
[3] https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-apr-24-he-22804...
I 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 evi…
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.
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.
Absolutely incredible. I wish something like this existed for Germany.
Two 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.
1. Fixed
2. Do you think this is because the URL stores the filter params, so every time you change a filter it's a new address? Do you have any examples of similar sites and how they behave? I can change this if it's not standard.
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…
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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 archived every PDF available on the wayback machine How did you tell archive.org to store the PDFs? It doesn't seem to have worked in all cases, since when I went to check out the single "order vacating automatic cancellation of certificate", there was no snapshot yet. https://web.archive.org/web/20231009140931/https://www2.mbc....