[d3x]

I am a patient. Being a patient is why I am so passionate about products in this space. So the thought of someone scraping the web to find information that I might apply to managing my medical condition is scary. I have worked at CPA companies that ran things like Molocure scams, Cure diabetes now sites etc... Perhaps your technology is so advanced that it can tell the difference between valid news and scams and perhaps you will manually review everything and verify the source of the information; but im not willing to bet my health on it.

[tasooey]

I feel ya. Having worked in healthcare for years and as a medical student myself / recently gone through rounds, I know exactly where you're coming from. In addition, I am a patient myself in the hospital once a week.

Moreover, having grown up in this era of cyberchondria, I know that the danger of self-treatment is ever present and real, but that's not the problem we're set out to solve.

Physicians know quite a bit, yes. They can tell you what medicines to take, anecdotally what they've seen, and what the latest research tells them. However, they're far removed from what the patient actually goes through in terms of daily struggles, and what is out there to help them with that.

We built our technology with the mindset to surface useful information and bury scams. We actually built a medical search engine that did just that, but it didn't take.

We interpret "apply to managing my medical condition" as directing you to the right resources (e.g. Crohnology for Crohns, WeSprout for parents) that you might not have otherwise heard of. And we definitely have safeguards against spam.