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Our story

Built by one doctor, for every doctor.

Dr. Rishabh Kumar
Oncologist · Founder
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The gap nobody builds for

Doctors live closest to the problems that matter. Every clinician carries real-world ideas that would genuinely change patient care, a workflow that wastes an hour a day, a question that takes twenty minutes to answer when the patient is in front of you, a paper you needed last month and found too late.

Almost none of those ideas become tools. Not because they are bad ideas, but because turning them into working software requires engineering know-how that medical training never gives us. So the ideas stay ideas, and the gap between clinical insight and clinical software stays exactly where it has always been.

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The pain point I lived

For me the sharpest version of that gap was the simplest one: just staying updated. Over a million papers are indexed on PubMed every year. The tools that filter that flood for a working clinician are either fragmented, painfully slow, or priced for institutions rather than individual doctors.

A resident or a physician in most of the world simply has no affordable way to know, every morning, what changed in their specialty last night, with the evidence graded and the sources cited. That felt wrong enough to do something about.

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Clinic by day, code by night

So I learned to code. Mornings and afternoons belonged to my patients; nights belonged to the terminal. With AI as a tireless pair-programmer, the distance between a clinical idea and working software collapsed from years to months.

Six months later, Web of Medicine existed: a living medical wiki compiled from PubMed with every claim cited, a Practice Update feed that watches each specialty and grades the evidence, and a family of clinical apps, built by one doctor, at night, for the price of persistence.

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An open invitation

Web of Medicine is still a single-member endeavour, and I like what that means: no committee between your feedback and the next release. If something is wrong, tell me and I will fix it. If something is missing, tell me and I will build it.

If this resonates, as a clinician, a researcher, or someone who simply believes doctors deserve better tools, use it, break it, write to me, and support the endeavour. This is medicine, built by medicine.

“Doctors are closest to the problems that matter.They deserve the tools to solve them.”