“If we [Economic Hit Men] falter, a more malicious form of hit man, the jackal, steps to the plate. And if the jackal fails, then the job falls to the military.”
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The second version of https://www.physician.fyi/ , a database of doctors and other medical practitioners with their disciplinary actions for patients to check. In this version, I’m expanding it to include all 6.5 million practitioners in the US, and integrating more data like how much doctors have been paid by drug/device companies. I’m planning on adding patient reviews/complaints too.
It’s the biggest and dirtiest dataset I’ve ever worked with, so it’s been interesting to figure out practical solutions to run things fast and generalize cleaning tasks. Of course it’ll be impossible to get every case (I can only match about half of the state licenses to national records at the moment), so I’ll have to figure out a user-edit/consensus system for the rest.
I’m making a new version [1] of https://www.physician.fyi that has this as a key trait since I'm trying to show medical practitioners' complete individual profiles as well as aggregate patterns across practitioners. I took inspiration from https://www.plasticlist.org. I'm still trying to figure out how to integrate the chart(s) and map now, so I'd appreciate any ideas.
John Perkins, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man