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by lwn 1765 days ago
First look - UI:

1. After hitting search there's no indication of activity (while loading. Page remains empty and unresponsive for a while.

2. When updating the search box, [enter] does not work.

3. There is no visual feedback between the list of specialists and the map, so there is no (easy) way to see where a specialist resides.

App:

1. I'd like to see more transparently which specialist maps to what condition (in search results). The "specialty" button seeems a bit non-informative.

2. Why can't I also search for a specialist field directly?

3. Having a DOI included with the medicals specialist's data will make it easier to find more info about the specialist.

1 comments

All true. This is version 1.0, far from perfect. Good advice, will fix all that soon.

Re the second part: search is by condition, so all specialists ranked relate to that condition. Each condition may be managed by multiple specialties, which is why the Specialties filter is extremely important. For example, you may already have a pulmonologist, but you need an oncologist or a surgeon. You can filter search results to only retain oncologists.

Not sure what you mean "specialist field directly". We will allow search by specialty, meaning that you can select "cardiology" or "oncology". That search won't be condition-specific. It'll rank e.g. oncologists across all cancers.