Telegram bot that will get answers from real doctors

Re:Telegram bot that will get answers from real doctors by lightbritefight on Thursday July 23, 2015 @12:10PM (#9936657)

While this makes the service seem shady, it may still be a useful stopgap in countries where medical care is sub standard. How many people do you know that are afraid to go to a doctor because of a possible 40k bill? I bet large sums of them would pay $10 to have at least some level of care or information about what to do next.

This could go bad, fast, leading to deaths, or it could be run well, and save lives. It will likely do a bit of both. There doesn't appear to be any oversight with diagnoses, and the model leads itself to call center style " read the script" answers by people who are not doctors, akin to farming code. If they can combat that, then they may just have something that solves the bloated and entrenched medical industries strangle hold on health as a buisness.

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Re:Telegram bot that will get answers from real doctors by dhruvsuyam on Friday July 24, 2015 @02:09AM (#9940334)

You have clearly captured the situation. At icliniq, quality matters to us. Every doctor who registers at icliniq is stringently verified. And more than verification, we check every answer of a doctor with in an in-house moderation team. Before a doctor is allowed to answer real health queries, we give them simulated queries to know their quality. If they do not answer it well, we block them from answering any queries. Period.

You can check our quality of our answers here ---> https://www.icliniq.com/qa/medical-questions-answers

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