@rapadmin I had access to Sermo for a few years and enjoyed reading its tremendous number of cases and expert opinions presented. Since we have enough well-informed amateurs and experts here in our ecosystem, why don’t we pull resources to have a mini Sermo?
I would love to be able to present real-life medical situations, dilemmas, or shared learned knowledge if and when various opinions would be helpful. Thoughts, everyone?
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I’ve not been on Sermo at all. Can you share how you think we might be able to replicate it here? How exactly does it work? Do people post medical situations, and people pile on with suggestions?
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In essence yes. I gained entry to Sermo through Bloomberg Terminal, where Sermo conducts extensive medical surveys. To access the website nowadays, you’ll need your medical registration number and a professional email. The platform is somewhat comparable to doximity but offers superior specialization and disease indexing with a worldwide population. The key is real-life cases with expert opinions rendered by many. Users, like Person A, can present patient cases or share thoughts on a topic, allowing the Sermo community to provide opinions or discuss patient cases with similar symptoms. If you look at Reddit/r/medicine, you will have some ideas. I am positive any of the doctors here would have access to or already have access to it. It’s a goldmine.
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I will start for the mini Semo Chat here:
Patient X is middle-aged, generally healthy, and energetic.
Symptoms: the right hand is colder than the left hand, a recent development.
What should be the work-up routine?
Google recommended: Doppler, EMG, and Blood tests for diabetes, autoimmune disorders, or clotting. Anyone else?
Raynaud’s (ray-NOSE) disease is like that. I’m not a doctor, but have a neighbor with this issue.
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Can anyone sign up for Sermo to check it out? I’m wondering do they check out the people who signup to validate you are who you say you are? Can I fake an doctor (or other medical professional) account to log in and check it out?
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There is a long list of “professional” that they would accept including psychologist and CIO. You need upload your cert and their algo would verify it. It’s not hard if you have something remotely related to the field.
Specialties available on Sermo
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What does Sermo have that we don’t have here?
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No kidding, even I could join! Hahaha
Are you kidding? millions of doctors / researchers sharing their practice notes / cases (literally) and cutting edge treatment options! Most of them are also specialists whose expertise and opinions are extremely valuable. Most of them are at top of their professionals and also many newly minted doctors who makes money there by doing surveys for drug companies.
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I think @KarlT was talking about “functional differences” between what we have here vs. Sermo. We’ll never have thousands of doctors here (at least any time soon), so thats not the area we can replicate. What are the functional differences in the software and or features that specifically make the sermo site valuable that we might be able to duplicate here? I can’t seem to get into the site so unfortunately cannot review it. If anyone would lend me a username password for a week, I’d like to check it out (I wouldn’t post anything, just want to look).
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I have applied to Sermo. Waiting for acceptance.
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