jamesfly

It never ceases to astound me, especially since these are the most well regarded members of our society with more education than anyone else.

On another note, there are some really interesting ones like this one [1] starting on page 9 which reads like crime novel.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20230926165052/https://www2.mbc....

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 take action for, but this wasn't searchable because all that was available were PDF scans that weren't digitized/OCR'd. I also noticed some documents that were referenced in doctors' profiles had disappeared. As part of this, I archived every PDF available on the wayback machine to protect against that going forward.

I also want to give credit to a similar site that I took inspiration from called 4patientsafety.org, which did some of the same stuff I have here, but completely manually. I chatted with the creator of that and he agreed making an automated version would help because they fell behind updating it due to how intensive the manual process was.

Yes, I am conscious of the immense protections health and personal data need to be guarded under when stored together. I recognize that there are strict certifications companies get to handle such info and I don’t have those. This is another place my decision to make everything public actually shines in my opinion. If I allowed making things "private", it might give a false sense of security (and require convincing the user to entrust that I could maintain that) whereas right now I hope it is clear that you should anonymize anything you input. I do not collect any personally identifiable info other than email (which can be a burner). Even if/when I integrate payments, the user should be able to use something like privacy.com.

I'm not well versed on business structures, so I'm having a bit of trouble following your second point about b-corps with relation to freemium.

Wow, that is exactly a path I have been thinking of taking this from the start. Vaguely, I'm interested in integrating biomedical papers linked by the conditions, therapies, and causative effects they mention and allowing discussion on them. Some of the higher-quality APIs I've found with this info do charge, so I'd be especially interested to hear about the projects you work on and if their license allows for use.

Important question! I plan to keep the core product free forever because I think it's important in a world of profiteering healthcare. My minimal wish is to make enough to keep it running forever. It costs about $3k a year right now, but I expect I could get these costs down with a couple infra changes. I'm fortunate to have Startup School credits covering a large part of it for the next 10 months. I have ideas for a premium plan that will give extra insights, the ability for users to make money by adding their own affiliate links to things they use, and perhaps adding over a certain number of therapies or adding things in certain categories like test results to their stack. I welcome any ideas as well.