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I'm a doctor - help me disrupt healthcare

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Re: I'm a doctor - help me disrupt healthcare

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Post by PeterisP »

md2be wrote: post #34
smalter wrote: post #8

My unsolicited advice: rather than being "fairly certain" that you can make $500/mo with your idea so that you would prefer to start a company first, I suggest that you reverse the order of operations. First, be certain that you can make $500/mo by building it yourself and get the hospital paying $500/mo. Then, if the opportunity looks good, start organizing (aka building an organization, a company) around that. You'…

The guy is a first year resident and should be working 70 hrs a week perfecting his skills. If he is cheating the system now by not being fully committed, I can only imagine what he will be doing 7 years from now.

If you gain 10 minutes/week for every surgeon in USA, then you've done more healing than you could by simply being a great surgeon for your whole life.

Re: I'm a doctor - help me disrupt healthcare

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Post by wbercx »

md2be wrote: post #34
smalter wrote: post #8

My unsolicited advice: rather than being "fairly certain" that you can make $500/mo with your idea so that you would prefer to start a company first, I suggest that you reverse the order of operations. First, be certain that you can make $500/mo by building it yourself and get the hospital paying $500/mo. Then, if the opportunity looks good, start organizing (aka building an organization, a company) around that. You'…

The guy is a first year resident and should be working 70 hrs a week perfecting his skills. If he is cheating the system now by not being fully committed, I can only imagine what he will be doing 7 years from now.

Isn't technology meant to make our lives easier? If this can increase the productivity of doctors, I reckon it's a good thing. That way they can spend those full 70 hours a week perfecting their skills, instead of wasting 20 hours to enter and retrieve data every week.

Re: I'm a doctor - help me disrupt healthcare

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Post by DanBC »

wbercx wrote: post #43
md2be wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The guy is a first year resident and should be working 70 hrs a week perfecting his skills. If he is cheating the system now by not being fully committed, I can only imagine what he will be doing 7 years from now.

Isn't technology meant to make our lives easier? If this can increase the productivity of doctors, I reckon it's a good thing. That way they can spend those full 70 hours a week perfecting their skills, instead of wasting 20 hours to enter and retrieve data every week.

Why don't doctors have clerical staff to do the data entry?

Re: I'm a doctor - help me disrupt healthcare

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Post by tpainton »

As a physician of 15 years in internal medicine all I have to say is residency must have become ridiculously easy if you have time to start a company.. For me, 100 hours a week made that impossible so I waited until I was done. Your idea is an old one. It's been deliberated and contemplated. You forget that you're writing code that is essentially a medical tool that potentially affects peoples lives. You will need massive insurance, and lots of regulations to contend with. You will take on all liability with regard to patient outcomes. In the end, it will cost you 10x more than 500 a week. I don't even consider healthcare with my coding projects.

Re: I'm a doctor - help me disrupt healthcare

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Post by fatoki09 »

thetylerhayes wrote: post #5

Founder of a SF-based healthcare-related startup here. Emailed you. I'm not looking for a job but happy to help how I can. EDIT: To anyone in the Bay Area (or really anywhere) also thinking about joining this industry, feel free to reach out to me too. My cofounders and I have learned way more than we want to know over the past few months about the healthcare industry + the startup side of things and are happy to pas…

Hi, what's your email? I'm a recent college grad who deferred my med school for admission for a year to learn Rails. Both of my parents are physicians and I've been working in a clinical setting since the age of 15. I'm seeing many opportunities to build tools that help improve physician workflow and I would love to reach out to you for advice. Please let me know if you're available for a short chat. My email is fatoki09(at)yahoo(dot)com.

Re: I'm a doctor - help me disrupt healthcare

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Post by arbuge »

tpainton wrote: post #45

As a physician of 15 years in internal medicine all I have to say is residency must have become ridiculously easy if you have time to start a company.. For me, 100 hours a week made that impossible so I waited until I was done. Your idea is an old one. It's been deliberated and contemplated. You forget that you're writing code that is essentially a medical tool that potentially affects peoples lives. You will need ma…

I would think automating it would vastly reduce the likelihood of error vs. manual entry.

Re: I'm a doctor - help me disrupt healthcare

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Post by healthenclave »

md2be wrote: post #33
healthenclave wrote: post #2

Sorry to piggy back on your post. But Indian Medical Doc here pursuing Orthopedic Surgery Residency who also codes in Python, Django, Frontend and Excellent in UI/UX is also looking for some help !! If there is anyone in the audience who is a full stack python guy located in India or USA and can help me disrupt Health care Kindly get in touch. Have lived and worked in some of the finest hospitals in US (viz: Ny Presb…

Your a first year resident. How about finishing your training? This sickens me.

You should not be making assumptions about people you don't know.

With that said I am not trying to make a quick buck here.There are real life pain points that I am trying to solve. The longer it takes for me to create my vision the longer people will have to live with pain, suffering, anxiety (because of lack of proper information to make choices upon).

If a good surgeon who took Fees for his services die tomorrow then it would not matter because his patients who just go to another surgeon. But if this doc creates something that solves a real life issue that no one is able to solve or maybe he creates the best one.. Only then would IMO would it even matter that this person even existed

Re: I'm a doctor - help me disrupt healthcare

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Post by md2be »

PeterisP wrote: post #41
md2be wrote: post #34

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The guy is a first year resident and should be working 70 hrs a week perfecting his skills. If he is cheating the system now by not being fully committed, I can only imagine what he will be doing 7 years from now.

If you gain 10 minutes/week for every surgeon in USA, then you've done more healing than you could by simply being a great surgeon for your whole life.

This guy has one shot at learning medicine, his residency. If he wants run a trivial startup, so be it. But his first responsibility, at this time, in his training, (no he is not really a doctor yet) including his residence and fellowship.
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