There is a massive surplus of information in medicine; Therefore, the information is neither focused nor objective for the benefit of patients.
I propose establishing a free online encyclopedia to provide focused, reading-friendly medical information with a broad view of chronic diseases of the body, mind, and addiction-related illnesses.
Is there a need for medical information in one central place?
There are thousands of websites on various medical, health, and nutrition topics.
- Medical information is constantly updated, but seeing a reliable, centralized, and objective picture is not easy. Patients with serious illnesses (like me, for example) spend days and nights searching for information, especially new methods and exhaustive explanations about the causes of the disease and how to recover from it.
The Encyclopedia of All Diseases is supposed to be in the public interest.
The Encyclopedia of All Diseases is supposed to provide readily available, up-to-date, and reliable information on everything related to the disease:
- Diagnosis, causes of the disease (mind and body), symptoms, complications, conventional treatment methods, recommended nutrition, self-healing treatments, prognosis, effective drugs, including side effects, findings of recent studies. Experimental treatment methods. (Not yet approved for treatment)
- It is essential to emphasize that updating websites with new research findings in the age of artificial intelligence is relatively easy. A long, difficult-to-understand article summary may take up only a few lines.
- In this information age, even doctors will keep up to date with encyclopedia websites, which will become the most reliable and up-to-date source of information in the medical world.
- Doctors are very busy, and I doubt how much time everyone spends reading new studies and articles!
The writing on the site will be adapted to the ordinary reader and not to the doctors. They will receive links to more detailed medical information.
Establishing the proposed venture.
The project is supposed to reflect a government initiative to establish a central site for the benefit of the public.
The funding for the construction and maintenance of the site is supposed to come from the large advertising companies, which are, in any case. These technology giants control the information. The project at the technological level is challenging but feasible in a relatively short period.
- The writing on the site will be distributed among leading medical centers and serve as a token of appreciation. Writing on the site will be done, free of charge, by volunteer doctors.
- Companies in healthcare, pharmaceuticals, medical equipment, and related fields are forbidden to advertise on the site! This is to avoid conflicts of interest.
A central encyclopedia of all areas of medicine will be a free service for citizens. In any case, it will be possible to translate everything into other languages at the click of a button.
