Most people suffering from irregular bowel movements visit their doctor and get some expert advice. But if that requires too much time or money, there are other options. Like, say, paying some random stranger a fraction of a Bitcoin to tell you what’s wrong.
Thanks to a new website called CoinMD, you can upload a photo of your latest bowel movement to the internet — together with a detailed description of your ongoing troubles — and obtain advice from an anonymous group of people who swear they’re doctors. If you like what you hear, you pay them in bitcoin, the world’s most popular digital currency. Or not. You can just take the advice for free. That’s what this guy did after uploading a picture of his stool to the new service.
Recently launched — and touted on Reddit — CoinMD combines three extremely hot internet trends: digital currency, crowdsourcing, and online healthcare. It’s a rather clever service — and it’s absolutely frightening. This is yet another reason to remember that, while the internet promises so much, it can also go horribly wrong.
“Personally, I think the idea is a genius one,” says Dr. Iltifat Husain, the founder and editor-in-chief of iMedicalApps, when asked about CoinMD, pointing out that such a service could tap into the expertise of countless residents in training — students hungry for some extra money. Husain, who is not involved with CoinMD, believes it could actually be useful for people with common medical conditions. But this comes with a caveat. “I would never recommend this site to a patient,” he says, “because it’s not done right.”
http://www.wired.com/wiredenterprise/2013/11/coinmd-bitcoins/
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