Topic: Medical Consult for Bitcoins - page 4. (Read 13267 times)

Matthew, you're hilarious.

Nice work DrG!  Let me know if you ever need a surgical consult.  

Good luck with the babies and your practice!  

Actually I found out what the problem is. I wasn't removing my stirring spoon before drinking.

Matthew

Take your nose out of the coffee cup!

Donations accepted using the address on my signature.

Dear Doctor (Students),

I have a pain in my nose everytime I drink my coffee. It only happens right when I'm drinking it and it is extremely uncomfortable.

What can I do?


Matthew

Hey DrG and boognish!

Update: I went to see that specialist, and took him DrG's write-up.

The orthopaedic specialist said your write-up was very good and he agrees with your approach (cautious skepticism regarding surgery, treatment plan, 2 different injuries).

He did some physical tests and told me that the first injury from my wrestling days is probably a chipped piece of cartilage, or possibly a fracture. The chipped piece of cartilage is stopping my arm fully extending by 1-2cm compared with my right arm. I had an x-ray and go back in 2 weeks to see about that. He said that if it is a chipped piece of cartilage then it is probably not a good idea to operate (since it would have healed over during these 4 years), and the way forwards is with physical therapy. Surgery is a last resort.

When I banged my elbow 1 year ago, he says this is scholars elbow and that the tingling/aching I feel, is where the nerve is regenerating itself. And that nerve damage takes a *really really* long time to heal.
I think it is this: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Olecranon_bursitis (not sure)

Overall I'm really happy! Could've been worse! Feel free to chip in with your own diagnostics doctors. Just putting this out there so everyone can see you're the real deal and did such a good job. The specialist liked your write-up. I stopped twice while reading it, but he asked for the whole thing and said it was good.

Keep it up! This is the future and you are doing good by providing people with easy access medicine. Of course, an online doctor is not a replacement for a real specialist, but it is a good supplement that can only help make people more healthier if used in a correct ethical manner.

Hugs & kisses,

Genjix

This thread is awesome, hope you don't mind that I stole your car thumping multimeter speech for a facebook status

Thanks Davinci, was wondering who that random donation was

Been a bit swamped on my end taking care of 2 sick babies at home.  Will get back to the PMs when I get a chance.

Nice work doctor I'm sending you 1.02 BTC.

Good stuff DrG   I just sent you a bitcoin.

I would love to see some very brief advice on how to search med. info in 2012, is PubMed king?  Are there any decent AI chatterbot attempts at diagnosis?  A few sites you recommend?  Thanks. 

Please PM with an email address for future reference :-)

Sometimes patients can know more about a condition that doctors. It would be great if someone was able to amass a number of contact with whom they can refer to or put people in contact with to get info on a condition too. I think there has to come a point one day when it's not possible for a General Practitioner to keep up to date on everything.

Wow.  This thread is amazing.  Hopefully I won't need to use it, but I'll still take comfort knowing it exists.  Keep up the good work!

jaw drops... The more services for bitcoin the better esp ones that help people.. 

Would you guys(the doctors here) be interested in a website for your consultation only?
Like pay some bitcoins/bitcents to unlock your answers type of thing? Or maybe run on donations only?

Weaver saved my soul once, can I start a thread for the Church of Bitcoin?

BTC-Hospital Saves Me
That guy on the bitcoin forums literally saved me from crippling injury in a few years time. Had I not spoke to him, it may have been too late before I got it checked out. I always kept putting it off since I'm so busy and it didn't seem like a big deal.

Hah, very interesting idea. I'll be following this.  I'm just a lowly 4th year med student myself.  Hopefully matching into Neurology next month.  Only 25 days, 12 hours, 51 minutes and 10 seconds until the match 

Assuming Bitcoin doesn't crash & burn in the next few years (big if), maybe I can join in as the local Neuro consult.  Good luck

Thank you DrG. I am in the UK, so our health care is free (luckily), otherwise I wouldn't be able to afford a specialist.

Scary stuff. I will go tomorrow right away with your message and demand a specialist from my GP. You probably saved my health a great deal otherwise I would definitely have put this off for longer. Thanks for the wakeup call.

8384c11b2b074e9004a07ddfe747ef566f27ced071a58ffe3562fc32f4315ee2
Sent a bitcoin.

I had this idea in the DCAO about 4 months ago, but it got shot down for some very serious reasons, the main two reasons being:

1) Potential negligence on the part of the individuals giving the medical advice. You can be sued, banned from medical school, degree revoked, etc just like lawyers can because the livelihood of people is in your hands; and even if that's not a problem in your specific country,

2) You cannot physically check (even with a webcam) enough parameters to do much more than WebMD does. Can someone send you blood samples? can you touch their back to see if you find a tumor?


Aside from these, I fully support anyone giving basic advice based on medical texts. WebMD kind of fails because they take too long to respond on issues. If you can solve that by doing this, I think it isn't that bad of an idea.

Whoa cool! Another doc!  With Medicare slashing reimbursement and private insurance following suit I'm looking at Bitcoins to save my financial butt   

DrG,

I'll be your consulting radiologist. I'm currently in training in southeast MN.

DrGoss (hopefully not too confusing!)
1GCDzqmX2Cf513E8NeThNHxiYEivU1Chhe

PS - please direct all questions to DrG...Radiologists are docs for docs