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Re: Show HN: Explore doctors' disciplinary history

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heliostatic wrote: post #7
jamesfly wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

You may want to look at courtlistener.org as inspiration--similar set of problems, but in a different space obviously.

Thanks but the site seems to be down. Do you have another link?

Re: Show HN: Explore doctors' disciplinary history

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Post by jamesfly »

huhtenberg wrote: post #30

https://www.physician.fyi/ca/c%2042520 shows up on the map as being in some random village in France.

I marked the map feature beta because I noticed the geocoding wasn't accurate for all addresses. I'll get on that. I'm hesitant to just exclude ones not in the US though because it's possible a doctor has a California license while primarily practicing in another country, just like that case.

Re: Show HN: Explore doctors' disciplinary history

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Post by jamesfly »

bloopernova wrote: post #8

Fantastic idea, thank you for implementing this. I too was harmed by a doctor and I'd really like to see this cover all states in the USA. I signed the linked petition on change.org.

So sorry that happened to you too. Thank you for signing the petition—I hope that would obviate the need for this site altogether.

Re: Show HN: Explore doctors' disciplinary history

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Post by jamesfly »

siva7 wrote: post #20

Thank 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.

Thank you. I agree that even though in the US this stuff is not as available as it could be, it still beats most of the world. That's why I think allowing for patients to report the information is so important. I've taken the first step toward that by enabling comments on each doctor's profile.

Re: Show HN: Explore doctors' disciplinary history

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Post by jamesfly »

i4i wrote: post #25

I may be missing something, but I would like to be able to search by zip and return individual doctor's names.

Thank you for the recommendation. I plan to enable geo-filtering via the map. I'll need to figure out what is the best granularity to do so at—maybe county. I might be able to give an option for the granularity too.

Re: Show HN: Explore doctors' disciplinary history

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Post by jamesfly »

mywrathacademia wrote: post #37
qwertox wrote: post #14

Absolutely incredible. I wish something like this existed for Germany.

With all the data protection laws doctors over there use as a shield, would it even be possible?

Something patient-initiated should always be possible. Already patients take to Yelp and Google Maps to leave reviews, but they are often taken down by the doctor/business. I've enabled comments on doctors' profiles as a first step toward this, but you make me think I could improve it by allowing submission of new doctors worldwide.

Re: Show HN: Explore doctors' disciplinary history

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Post by jamesfly »

sickofparadox wrote: post #11

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!

Thank you! I too had no idea it existed before it happened to me.

Re: Show HN: Explore doctors' disciplinary history

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Post by jamesfly »

pierat wrote: post #27

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.)

"—more states coming soon" ;) No state publishes this depth of data machine readable. u/cobertos covered the rest in their reply.

Re: Show HN: Explore doctors' disciplinary history

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Post by jamesfly »

codeTired wrote: post #22
jamesfly wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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)

Sorry to hear you've also had poor experiences. I too had to delve into Pubmed to figure out what was going on with me after the doctor harmed me.

Thank you for offering to help out. I do want to refine the site and data a little more over the next few days and maybe do a second state myself to make sure my pattern generalizes well before opening up the repo.

I've now made a discord here https://discord.gg/bXdk4CuR7B for anyone interested in contributing.

Comments on doctors should already be enabled via Disqus if you scroll to the bottom of a profile page.

Yes, I definitely want to add that data!

Re: Show HN: Explore doctors' disciplinary history

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Post by jamesfly »

cobertos wrote: post #6
jamesfly wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

Is there a link to the community where this is being developed? I was unable to find one on the site itself. I'd be interested in writing a scraper for my state and the digitization pipeline.

Thank you for offering to help. I'm going to refine the site and data a little more over the next week and maybe do a second state myself to make sure my pattern generalizes well before opening up the repo, but I've now made a discord https://discord.gg/bXdk4CuR7B for anyone interested in contributing.
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