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Re: Show HN: Explore doctors' disciplinary history

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Post by jamesfly »

the_sleaze9 wrote: post #10
cobertos wrote: post #6

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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.

I'd be interested in helping out as well, looking forward to it

Thank you. 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.

Re: Show HN: Explore doctors' disciplinary history

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Post by jamesfly »

noman-land wrote: post #26
jamesfly wrote: post #4

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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…

Please open source this. I would love to help.

Thank you. 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.

Re: Show HN: Explore doctors' disciplinary history

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Post by jamesfly »

radlad wrote: post #23
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 also interested in writing a scraper for my site (Michigan) if time allows.

Thank you. I'm going to refine it 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.

Re: Show HN: Explore doctors' disciplinary history

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Post by jamesfly »

mywrathacademia wrote: post #39
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…

Open sourcing this would be a great idea and a lot of people would happily contribute, it already looks great. The biggest secret is that most doctors do more harm than good when a patient has anything worse than a cold. The psychopaths who couldn't make it as CEOs or serial killers end up becoming doctors, in charge of people's health.

Thank you. I'm going to refine the site a bit 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.

Re: Show HN: Explore doctors' disciplinary history

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Post by ryandrake »

jamesfly wrote: post #35
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.

Thank you. I'll fix asap. The data source only gives me the names as complete names in "last, first middle" format, and I didn't want to take risk parsing them since there are inconsistencies, but I'll work it out. For now, I've clarified the format in the placeholder of that field.

Yea, a more exact search that can parse out first name and last name would be the way. If I search for JOHN SMITH, and there are actually none in the database, I think I'd rather just see no results than 50 different Johns, none with last name Smith.

Re: Show HN: Explore doctors' disciplinary history

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Post by levelhorizon »

jamesfly wrote: post #41
heliostatic wrote: post #7

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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?

It's www.courtlistener.com

Re: Show HN: Explore doctors' disciplinary history

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Post by huhtenberg »

jamesfly wrote: post #42
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.

In that case I think it's a confusion over "Jerusalem" in her address and "Jerusalem" in the name of the tagged place, which is "Chapelle Notre-Dame-de-Jerusalem".

Re: Show HN: Explore doctors' disciplinary history

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Post by [deleted] »

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…

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