"2) Are there any crowd-sourced solutions available yet for these cases where doctors clearly have no idea? Someone enters all their symptoms and people discuss online and try to come up with some possible options."
A while back I was looking for info on some medical "issue" that I had trouble defining the correct search terms for. Anywho, I eventually came to some sort of medical site where users could ask questions. And then doctors would comment/answer/respond on it. Now, I presume that these doctors were paid and/or verified, but I never looked too far into it. They sure sounded like they knew what they were talking about, and it wasn't as if they copy-pasted something from the net / a book, the responses were tailored to the questions.
A while back I was looking for info on some medical "issue" that I had trouble defining the correct search terms for. Anywho, I eventually came to some sort of medical site where users could ask questions. And then doctors would comment/answer/respond on it. Now, I presume that these doctors were paid and/or verified, but I never looked too far into it. They sure sounded like they knew what they were talking about, and it wasn't as if they copy-pasted something from the net / a book, the responses were tailored to the questions.