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As a young PCP, I wasn't familiar with the condition. For professional info on the disease: https://www.openevidence.com/ask/03586d88-9477-46f9-9089-9a7b6a47454a", "context": "Young PCP (primary care physician)", "use_case": "Clinical reference search", "switched_from": "", "story": "Encephalitis"}, {"id": 768187808, "item_id": 48011738, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48011738", "by": "nanfinitum", "date": "2026-05-04", "stance": "recommend", "quote": "They've done a good job of capturing the doctor market while offering a useful product.", "excerpt": "I have a lot of doctor friends who tell me they all use OpenEvidence [1] in their practice. They've done a good job of capturing the doctor market while offering a useful product. 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We replaced them with OpenEvidence.", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "UpToDate", "story": "OpenAI's o1 correctly diagnosed 67% of ER patients vs. 50-55% by triage doctors"}, {"id": 750214688, "item_id": 46888418, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46888418", "by": "thepotatodude", "date": "2026-02-04", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "I use OpenEvidence. It has access to full text from some of the major medical journals.", "excerpt": "https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.01191 See this. I use OpenEvidence. It has access to full text from some of the major medical journals. But generalist models seem to outperform it. Not sure what is going on there.", "context": "", "use_case": "medical research search", "switched_from": "", "story": "Anthropic AI Tool Sparks Selloff from Software to Broader Market"}, {"id": 750056544, "item_id": 46878534, "url": "https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46878534", "by": "olliepro", "date": "2026-02-03", "stance": "neutral", "quote": "", "excerpt": "Much of the scientific medical literature is behind paywalls. They have tapped into that datasource (whereas ChatGPT doesn't have access to that data). I suspect that were the medical journals to make a deal with OpenAI to open up the access to their articles/data etc, that open evidence would rely on the existing customers and stickiness of the product, but in that circumstance, they'd be pretty screwed. For example", "context": "", "use_case": "", "switched_from": "", "story": "Anthropic AI Tool Sparks Selloff from Software to Broader Market"}]}