BoingBoing Shamefully Ignores Valid Questions; More about User-Generated Content

yeah I am baffled by second article on the same subject, as was the case decades ago this was same reaction of medical community when WebMD became public. Seems like narrow minded doctors are scared about user generated contents, recommendations be it WebMD, WebMD fourms, Craigslist health forums, Dailystrength.org and now user generated recommendations of doctors on RevolutionHealth etc. I think this goes beyond whoissick.org, you are waging a war against user generated sharing of information. It is a deep seated fear. Anyway good luck, all you are doing is giving more buzz and press to whoissick.org.

I also wanted to add,have you checked out Custom Search Engines from Google? and searched on symptoms etc, well it now gives you more information than before and in more organized way, so are you saying that Google is doing terrible thing now that I dont have pick up phone and call doctor since internet has wealth of information?.Also checkout Yahoo answers on health questions. You are fighting a loosing battle. Also people all over the net are writing reviews about doctors and rating them. Well welcome to new age, wake up and smell coffee!!! How many of us are you going to try to stop.

All the best to you, sir, in using whoissick.org to make irrational decisions. Ignorance is bliss.

In terms of empowering patients with information, this little site of ours, day in and day out been doing more than you will ever do on Craigslist. Just because whoissick.org is user-generated, doesn't mean it is good (that's what BoingBoing thinks; that's their lowest common denominator). And as such, we will never praise a user-generated garbage. But it is your choice if you want to dig it.

Adam, yes Google is doing a great job of improving their search results for [some] medical topics. I especially like how they divide the info into sx, tx, dx, for patients vs for health professionals. However, you may remember our blogged about the BMJ's research showing that Google [HELPED] make accurate dx in only 58% of the time. And that was with TRAINED medical professionals using the technology. Before you bash us and make ridiculous claims that we are some how opposed to the new technology to help pts, you might take a second and think who're talking about, i.e., a group of techy-early adopting-gadget loving doctors/scientists who run the MOST successful medical technologies web site ever. So maybe its not that we're anti-technology and maybe just that we know what we're talking about.