Hacker News Reader

>Would you trust a medical system measured by: which doctor would the average Internet user vote for?

Yes, the system desperately needs this. Many doctors malpractice for DECADES.

I would absolutely seek to, damn, even pay good money to, be able to talk with a doctor's previous patients, particularly if they're going to perform a life-changing procedure on me.

View on HN

Doctors would also pay good money for votes, so I'm not sure that would fix anything.

Raw score is often quite frankly crap. It's often still easy to surface the negative reviews and since people don't at least at present fake those you can find out what they didn't like about a product. If a given products critics are only those whining about something irrelevant, not meaningful to your use case, or acceptable to you and it overall appears to meet spec you are often golden.

My thinking exactly. And actually in Mexico we have https://www.doctoralia.com.mx/

Which is exactly that. I've actually found great specialists there, looking at their ratings.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com