There should be a directory of all the Doctors (General practitioners and specialists) in Pakistan. Browsable/Searchable by their specialty, Location, years of experience, etc.
Patients (and their attendants) should be able to submit rating and (optionally) detailed feedback about a practitioner. This feedback should be publicly visible.
The trickiest thing will be to acquire and enter doctors’ data. If a pharmaceutical company can sponsor such a project, they would already have doctors’ data in great detail, most likely in a digital format.
For doctors: This will increase their visibility to an unprecedented extent. Keep in mind the exponentially increasing number of Pakistani Internet users.
For patients: This will be a treasure of information (especially the rating part) The only way to find a good doctor today is by word of mouth.
For sponsors: This can offer targeted marketing. Private hospitals or clinics, Pharmacies, can be easily convinced to place their advertisements on this website. Sponsorship will be important to make the project bear its own operational cost.
What do you think?
June 24th, 2008 at 1:56 am #Ahmad Kamal
I remember a serice like this but I’ve forgotten the link. I think it was for karachi only. But it was quite good. I wil try to find it and post the link here.
June 25th, 2008 at 3:26 pm #Aqeel Ahmad
Here is a directory: http://www.pakdoctors.info/directory/
Data is decently comprehensive. However, it lacks patient rating/feedback feature which can add a lot of value.
June 30th, 2008 at 5:07 am #Teeth Maestro
Personally I dont see this idea as helping in any significant way, what would have been perfect if these docs were email-able but apart from from Address (more importantly Ph Number) its of little use.
Best to customize is to use the same database - make it searchable and taged
Tagged according to speciality, City, Location, and anything else that matters.
Not that I would discourage this project, but id rather see work done on far more essential issues
June 30th, 2008 at 10:29 pm #Muhammad Qasim Pasta
I think, Teeth has given value-proposition to this idea … well done Teeth!