Doctors' rating system

How many times have you felt the need to consult a doctor with in-depth domain knowledge of your ailment but faced problems in identifying the right doctor for you, even through you are ready to put in the required amount of money to get the ailment resolved?

How many times it has happened to you after consultation that the doctor's opinion did not match and they might be just trying to loot you out of money just providing expensive tests with no conclusive output expected?

How many times do you prefer taking second or third opinion through multiple other set of doctors for the same ailment to recheck the first doctor's opinion?

How many times do you fail to get the ailment resolved through a set of doctors and rendered in extreme doubt about the future of your health?

Well, all of the that has happened to me. I have a TMJ pain related issue since last 8 years where I get headaches across the day, my sleep is disturbed due to me grinding my teeth at night and my facial muscles are always tight keeping me sore for the whole day. Imagine having this every day for last 8 years (2920 days and still counting). So, the obvious question comes ki doctor ko dikhale na bhai.

I have consulted more than 16 highly qualified doctors (as per their degrees) in this domain of TMJ issue all across Bangalore. The conclusion never results to the solution, ever! Few suggestions worked, many didn't.

The situation is such that I feel being looted now of money given all the tests done never result to the root cause of my problem. Also, any new doctor that is suggested to me does not bring up that confidence that he/she might be able to get it.

It keeps me wondering if there are many others like me but struggling in their respective silos with none in the state to build something around this. There might be many who would have gotten a solution working for them and can suggest these doctors to me.

As per my search, no platform today is vast enough to help me identify, have confidence on the doctor and their process and be able to share my feedback freely rating the doctor so that others can get their diseases resolved.

Imaging an AI-driven platform which helps you analyse the issue in detail and provides you with a list of 10 most acclaimed doctors in your city (or any other location) who are highly rated by their patients for solving very similar diseases as yours. This platform also takes a detailed review from you along with mapping out your whole journey through the solution and reviews you daily so that any symptom is not missed which can help further diagnose things better. This can be a way to systemise the medical system which is still run on hypothesis and can be one-fit-for-all as everyone's body is different.

I have tried building very light version of this by creating a chat on chatGPT giving all the context related to my TFCC tear (which I got during lifting weights) after being thoroghly analysed by an Ortho for the same. Given all the initial diagnosis and the suggestions put in by the Ortho, I had already started on the path to in-home physiotherapy. chatGPT helps me with the weekly analysis of my progress, suggests any other set of exercise that I need to do and provides detailed reason behind taking the tablets (with explaination of each ingredient used) and alternatives. This has improved my pace to recovery and reduced my frequency of consultations. It also is a relief to have someone intelligent in the room to discuss your progress on a daily basis and analysise if anything feels wrong.

This combined with the patients' feedback on doctor can help create a more consciously driven healthcare system rather than anxiety driven one now.

Will be definitely building and testing this further as I feel "India needs this".