As a clinician, you know how hard it is to find online contact information for another healthcare professional. Looking for John Smith, MD, a surgeon in San Francisco? A Google search will yield thousands of results - many of them outdated, irrelevant, and just not the physician you're looking for. Using the Doximity as your healthcare directory, you can quickly search and find any U.S. physician, NP, PA or pharmacist in seconds. Here's how a few members have used the search tool at point-of-care:
"During one of my rotations in New York, I needed to get in touch with a professional who was at a different institution about a patient he had treated in the past. Unfortunately, the contact information was not posted online (supposedly for privacy purposes). After calling the hospital and attempting to get the contact information for this physician, the administrative staff refused to provide this information over the phone (despite this being a necessity for standard patient care). Ultimately, I was able to find this physician's profile on doximity, which included his contact information and was able to communicate with him through this approach."
-Steven He, MD
"Doximity has mainly been helpful in the ability to connect. We were looking for a very specific neurosurgeon in an unfamiliar part of town. After a few guesses of the name, I was able to find the contact faster than on google or any search engine!"
-Anand Allam, MD
"About 2 weeks ago in clinic, I had a patient who urgently needed a retinal specialist. Google searches for physicians tend to yield Yelp-equivalent sites rating doctors and giving very little information without a subscription: it's an inefficient way to search for colleagues. I simply hopped on Doximity in the room with her to see if I could find someone I knew personally. It streamlined the process of finding someone that I trusted because I knew him from medical school and who was located close to the patient's home. I was able to quickly call him through his listed phone number and explain the situation so that she could be seen the next day. The patient, my colleague, and me all benefited from being able to get her taken care of quickly, personally, and professionally."
-Clasina Smith, MD