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The author explicitly mentions they collected all this data hoping it would be valuable to the specialists they have seen, but found they consistently were uninterested in it — an experience I can say is nearly universal for chronic illness sufferers I know in the US.

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doctors don't have any experience doing that and are set in their ways

Maybe, it's diagnosing chronic conditions is an opportunity for a disruptive startup?

Crowd sourced diagnosis detective work!

Call it DrHouse.io, you dump your data and hobbyist doctor investigators try to figure a diagnosis that fits all the symptoms

Top ranking users collect mad fees from "commissioned" diagnosis.

Sounds like a site that would fill up immediately with diagnoses of wifi exposure, delayed vaccine reaction, and chemical exposure from chemtrails.

hey, that's a niche too

just tag it in a non-offensive way (deep-state related?) and allow other users to filter it out

There was an Obama era initiative called precision medicine, sometimes called personalized medicine and one of the people spearheading it was a software guy. I sometimes fantasize about using my good debugging skills to heal people. It is like Dr. House. But look up precision medicine.

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