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UOk…I will bite. I agree that buying healthcare vs a packet of biscuts is different. The dimensions on the healthcare economics front also include information imbalance (misinformation is a strong marketing tool) and media/marketing purchasing power with larger hospitals. How is one to check reputation? Reviews that can be falsified or brought? Do you expect some level of credibility check on if a doctor is specialised or not? Is this not the responsibility of an aggregator? Can a platform claim that a doc is a specialist when he or she is not? If you advertised that drink xyz makes you grow tall…..it’s false advertising but claiming to be a specialist when one is not is ok?
PS: Furthermore on healthcare economics……. good luck finding insurance cover for fertility issues. It’s not covered in 99.9% cases….. Out of pocket expenses for families……driving marital discord, abandonment of women and financial ruin in India.
UYes…..and the right of a consumer to get correct information to make a decision can go take a hike!UThe question was never about doctors but about regulations against aggregators for misrepresentation to consumersUTake practo as an example, search for infertility specialist. You would be lucky if one or two in the top 10 docs listed even have a fellowship in reproductive medicine or infertility. If you look at their reviews you will see that most of their practice is as obgyn generalists and rarely as fertility specialists. So the first set of docs that the platform exposes as specialists are truly not specialists! Docs with speciality training appear only randomly. For a patient who knows no better what is shown is what they believe. On the other hand, search for a cardiologist or a diabetes specialist, the platform tells you the difference between who is a generalist with special intrest and who is a specialist. This is misrepresentation to the consumer at the end of the day.UI believe that a large part of the issue is in having money minded ill trained people holding up the flag. Seeking medical care for a medical condition is everyone’s right. Aggregators are the primary source of advertising and information to public online. Hence my question on who regulates aggregators to ensure that the right information is given?UObGyns are generalists in fertility treatment. Fertility today is a super speciality with FnB in Reproductive Medicine, MCh and other fellowships. Infact the ART act requires people to have a MCh or FnB as a degree post MS obgyn. It just like you can’t call everyone with a MD medicine as a cardiologist or neurologist……there is government recognized super speciality training. Aggregators show doctors as per such training by stating the person as a super specialist or a generalist with specific intrest.
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