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Market => Product offers => Topic started by: SilkDoc on July 21, 2012, 06:52 pm

Title: Need Your Opinion please: I consider offering new service: Medical Advice
Post by: SilkDoc on July 21, 2012, 06:52 pm
Hi Guys,

I am a GP with a lot of time at the moment since unemployed. I consider offering medical advice to the SR community (NON drug related as I am not a psychiatrist and that is a quite tricky field) in exchange for bitcoins

1. What do you think of this idea? Can you imagine that there is a need for that?

2. If yes, how much (in USD) would you be willing to pay for serious advice

3. Would SR allow me to offer this business.

Of course there would always be several disclaimers on my vendors page and people who would use my service MUST be aware that this is just an ADVICE which does not replace visiting a doctor live.

Thanx for your opinion

Cheers
SilkDoc
Title: Re: Need Your Opinion please: I consider offering new service: Medical Advice
Post by: Imaginarytailus13 on July 21, 2012, 07:02 pm
Hey mang I got shot in the nee-cap and shit nigguh. Am I gunna need a bandade or what?  :'(

On a serious note, it might work. I don`t really think you`ll get paid a lot to be honest, furthermore it might be hard to prove that you`re a credible source for medical advice. I`m sure SR will allow it, you can post it under the 'services' section.
Title: Re: Need Your Opinion please: I consider offering new service: Medical Advice
Post by: raistlin on July 21, 2012, 08:47 pm
That sounds like a cool idea.
I would suggest that you advertise on the forum first, maybe do a few on the forum by pm and they could leave a donation when finished? ( if that doesnt break rules!)
It would be a way to gauge interest and also work out what people are willing to pay for your services.

Good luck up ahead anyways :-)

Title: Re: Need Your Opinion please: I consider offering new service: Medical Advice
Post by: Cozmo on July 22, 2012, 04:05 am
Could you be more specific about the advice you are going to provide?
'Is there ways around the system to get certain prescriptions?' or 'Hey i've got these bumps on my body are these dangerous should i put cream on them?'
Or even possibly you have a way of producing scripts.

What specifically did you have in mind? Cause i think your only market might be USA, as basically all other countries have some from of government regulated healthcare system. So we can walk into our doctor's office without insurance or paying a cent.
Title: Re: Need Your Opinion please: I consider offering new service: Medical Advice
Post by: SilkDoc on July 24, 2012, 04:05 pm
Guys thank you for your feedback and ideas so far.

@ raistlin: doing a test-run via forum is a very good suggestion. thx for that

@ cozmo : it is more the latter ( bumps).absolutely not interested in selling prescription drugs or fake prescriptions.  of course us is market enough, but also in europe you might want to have a second opinion on something,or no time to go to doctor etc.

Will try to get some more feedback here. :D

Title: Re: Need Your Opinion please: I consider offering new service: Medical Advice
Post by: radioheadfan5 on July 24, 2012, 11:41 pm
I think this is an interesting idea, but for me to be willing to pay, you would have to be able to offer a service superior to what is available for free on WebMD, etc. Also, would you charge by amount of time you spend, per ailment, etc.? Also, doing all the communication over SR private messages could be tough (and annoying), so maybe consider doing it over tormail/hushmail so people could send photos, etc.