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by ano-ther 683 days ago
Good observation about the value of patient ratings.

You will have to address these (this comes from a European perspective - I have no idea about the Indian healthcare system).

1 Incentives. Usually, doctors charge for a consultation when you ask them for a second opinion.

2 Quality: Physicians want to see as much as possible to make an informed advice. An online upload only gives them a part of that. Telemedicine may help.

3 Liablity: connected to quality. Who is responsible for advice gone wrong?

I’ve seen insurances offering payment for second opinions, either for easy cases that can be solved on paper (dentistry seems to be among them) or hard ones which require an additional visit (like cancer). Some of that is of course to keep their cost down. And I haven’t seen a register like you mentioned.

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I didn't know about insurance paying for second opinion in Europe; that's interesting.

Liability - are doctors liable in Europe, except in extreme cases like anesthesia overdose or obvious negligence? Even if they were, I'm interested in cases where doctors are not being criminally negligent, but just ineffective due to not keeping themselves updated.

Do you have thoughts about where to collect the seed data, in the European system?