Did I tell you about the app I’m developing? It’s a quick and easy way to get cheap medical care.
Hear me out.
These days we watch so much TV and there are so many medical shows. We know more about advanced medical procedures than ever before.
Also, there are endless medical advice websites. And you can learn how to do anything on YouTube.
The way the app works is this. Let’s say you need a pelvic exam. How hard can it be to do a pelvic exam?
You open the app and into the query box type: I need a pelvic exam.
People in your vicinity that have the app will get an alert based upon their self-reported skills and interests.
They will respond by bidding on your procedure. You can sort by location, appointment time and price. Click a button and go get your exam! Or have your examiner come to you. Whatever works best, is cheapest, and gets you the care you need.
I think this is going to change the way America does healthcare.
[Edited to add: I scheduled this post over the weekend. The day after I wrote it I found this article about DIY gynecology.
A collective of radical bio-hackers and TransHackFeminists are out to reclaim gynecological medicine for those women, and for themselves. Under the name GynePunks, they’re assembling an arsenal of open-source tools for DIY diagnosis and first-aid care—centrifuges made from old hard drive motors; microscopes from deconstructed webcams; homemade incubators; and 3D printable speculums.]
[Even more edits added: I guess I should explain myself in case anyone is paying attention. I added the DIY bit just because I’d made a joke about pelvic exams. To clarify, I think a lot of women don’t have access to healthcare and if DIY can help them, terrific.
The app riff is intended to be a comment on the start-up culture bypassing traditional licensing, training and safety measures in the name of providing better, cheaper, more convenient service. (And often, shitty jobs.)
I probably shouldn’t have put both in the same post, but it’s done now.]
