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Hi everyone. I'm not a doctor, I'm a software engineer and I'm looking for a partnership with a doctor/intern to test a business idea that I think might make an impact on the world and enable people who have no access to healthcare for various reasons, to at least receive good advice and, possibly, some actual help.
The idea is simple and not really new: online consultancy and medical advice. Until now, however, it was relatively difficult to implement it on a large scale, since regulations in many regions of the world do not allow doctors, and especially interns, to engage in such side jobs. Many simple problems people have though, as I imagine, can easily be solved by interns at a reasonable price. Bitcoin is here to help as it enables anonymous transactions between the two parties, so that any doctor engaging in such an activity can stay under the radar, yet actually help people in need and make money.
As some of you know, Bitcoin is a digital currency that is not controlled by any institution and that makes it impossible to use it for economic censorship. That is, if someone in Africa doesn't have a credit card or PayPal, they can still have bitcoins and use them with virtually no transaction fees. More interestingly, because Bitcoin is relatively anonymous, this means doctors can stay anonymous (yet have their reputation accumulated).
And so I'm currently building an online platform to bring together doctors and patients. I believe such a platform would do three important things:
1. Help people who have no access to quality healthcare either because they have no insurance or are living in a third-world country.
2. Help young doctors make money and gain more actual real-world experience out of the framework of their hospitals and med schools.
3. Accumulate useful knowledge for the next generations of doctors.
That said, my objective now is to start small and test the demand. I'm looking for a doctor or an intern willing to consult patients on such a website and be paid in Bitcoin. I will handle the technical side of the question, building the platform and handling all the payment processing. You won't need to reveal your identity and I will answer all of the questions you might have about Bitcoin or this project either here or privately.
Let me know what you guys think about it. Criticism is more than welcome.
The idea is simple and not really new: online consultancy and medical advice. Until now, however, it was relatively difficult to implement it on a large scale, since regulations in many regions of the world do not allow doctors, and especially interns, to engage in such side jobs. Many simple problems people have though, as I imagine, can easily be solved by interns at a reasonable price. Bitcoin is here to help as it enables anonymous transactions between the two parties, so that any doctor engaging in such an activity can stay under the radar, yet actually help people in need and make money.
As some of you know, Bitcoin is a digital currency that is not controlled by any institution and that makes it impossible to use it for economic censorship. That is, if someone in Africa doesn't have a credit card or PayPal, they can still have bitcoins and use them with virtually no transaction fees. More interestingly, because Bitcoin is relatively anonymous, this means doctors can stay anonymous (yet have their reputation accumulated).
And so I'm currently building an online platform to bring together doctors and patients. I believe such a platform would do three important things:
1. Help people who have no access to quality healthcare either because they have no insurance or are living in a third-world country.
2. Help young doctors make money and gain more actual real-world experience out of the framework of their hospitals and med schools.
3. Accumulate useful knowledge for the next generations of doctors.
That said, my objective now is to start small and test the demand. I'm looking for a doctor or an intern willing to consult patients on such a website and be paid in Bitcoin. I will handle the technical side of the question, building the platform and handling all the payment processing. You won't need to reveal your identity and I will answer all of the questions you might have about Bitcoin or this project either here or privately.
Let me know what you guys think about it. Criticism is more than welcome.
