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Thank you. This data should be available in all states, but each state has a proprietary site I have to write a new scraper for and write a new data pipeline for. I'm thinking about open-sourcing the project and gathering community support for the rest now that I have a good pattern set.

Yes, I was harmed by a doctor and the medical board dismissed my complaint. This made me curious about what the board actually does take action for, but this wasn't searchable because all that was available were PDF scans that weren't digitized/OCR'd. I also noticed some documents that were referenced in doctors' profiles had disappeared. As part of this, I archived every PDF available on the wayback machine to protect against that going forward.

I also want to give credit to a similar site that I took inspiration from called 4patientsafety.org, which did some of the same stuff I have here, but completely manually. I chatted with the creator of that and he agreed making an automated version would help because they fell behind updating it due to how intensive the manual process was.

parent jamesfly 3 years ago

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