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by jcims 2308 days ago
That makes sense. I don't know if you're expecting customers to find a doc that will be willing to order or if you're curating a list of docs that customers can select from, but in my experience the latter is much simpler to navigate.

My wife was in a situation where she was in the ragged edges of a common disease that made her eligibility for various trials and therapies suspect. She had a somatic mutation that would be nice to be able to fully catalog. There is a trial going on right now (MATCH [0]) that does selective testing for mutations and deficiencies in cancer patients that have some associated trial therapy. This is fine but outcomes are of course going to vary and developing a catalog that can be mined after the fact might help identify other areas to focus on.

Best of luck to you and your company!

[0] - https://www.cancer.gov/about-cancer/treatment/clinical-trial...

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Really appreciate it! As a quick comment, we work with a physician network that has physicians licensed in all 50 states and they review the medical information of all of our patients. This way we don't put the burden on our users.
Nice. That's way better. Especially in the situation with rare maladies (or a combination of them) it doesn't take long for the layperson to know more about it than their local GP will. Trying to convince them to order a $900 lab for you would be an uphill battle in many cases.