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Don't know if this is an ad or not, but this is basically exactly what I'm looking for. Thank you!

Thanks. My experience with ZocDoc for other specialties has been (for lack of a better term) disappointing.

Working in the industry, would you have any specific suggestions for someone who feels overwhelmed to winnow the options from 1000-ish to under a dozen?

New York, fwiw. And yes, I'm functional in a "get out of bed every day and go to work and put on a good front" sense, and would prefer to avoid medication if possible.

Yeah, that's the site that returned an intractable list of ~2500 options in NYC, and that caused me to shut down the last couple times I looked for help.

This is great! How would one locate such a service in another city?

You're probably right.

Of course, finding a GP at all was another overwhelming task that my depressed self put off for.... what, 10 years?

Thank you for this suggestion. It's the closest I've seen to far to a solution. A sad shortage of providers who take my insurance, but the UI made it otherwise easy to narrow down to a manageable number of options.

Mine just offers a data dump of 500 providers and their phone numbers, unfortunately.

Of course. The trouble is finding those first few people to talk to in the first place.

Yes, exactly. I wish I could pop my location and insurance plan into a website, and get back a list of 3 nearby providers who are accepting new patients - even better, links to a site where one can schedule appointsments with each of them.

Google, however, is prohibitive. You end up having to either comb through thousands of individual results to find ones that are nearby and take your insurance, or you end up on an aggregator site with literally thousands (at least in NYC) of matches and the same problem with slightly more structured data.

It's just so daunting to make any decision when faced with too much data and insufficient information on how to use that data, that the depressive brain just kind of shuts down and says "fuck it, I can't deal with this now."