“If we [Economic Hit Men] falter, a more malicious form of hit man, the jackal, steps to the plate. And if the jackal fails, then the job falls to the military.”

John Perkins, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man

Your homepage says “NOW COVERED BY INSURANCE” with Anthem Blue Cross Blue Shield listed, but when going through your signup, it says “Advocacy isn't covered by Blue Cross Blue Shield just yet. We're working on it!”

Just curious, why would you put a figure on the signing bonus but not the salary?

The second version of https://www.physician.fyi/ , a database of doctors and other medical practitioners with their disciplinary actions for patients to check. In this version, I’m expanding it to include all 6.5 million practitioners in the US, and integrating more data like how much doctors have been paid by drug/device companies. I’m planning on adding patient reviews/complaints too.

It’s the biggest and dirtiest dataset I’ve ever worked with, so it’s been interesting to figure out practical solutions to run things fast and generalize cleaning tasks. Of course it’ll be impossible to get every case (I can only match about half of the state licenses to national records at the moment), so I’ll have to figure out a user-edit/consensus system for the rest.

I noticed your physician-view is just raw JSON. I had time on my hands and this sounded cool so I whipped up a quick desktop dashboard [1] based on the JSON I saw. Feel free to use / adapt / reach out about it. Either way a great resource!

1 - https://ibb.co/v6WZ7MFr

Thanks a lot :) That’s really helpful. I’m working on adding a map view for now, but will save this for when I get there.

I’m making a new version [1] of https://www.physician.fyi that has this as a key trait since I'm trying to show medical practitioners' complete individual profiles as well as aggregate patterns across practitioners. I took inspiration from https://www.plasticlist.org. I'm still trying to figure out how to integrate the chart(s) and map now, so I'd appreciate any ideas.

[1] https://ibb.co/VYQpcz9Z

We've got Florida now too!

It's fuzzy search, so the most relevant ones should be ordered correctly. I can certainly tune the threshold to not keep less relevant ones.

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

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

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.