LinkedIn for doctors: does it exist?

Who already tried this

What's the crossover

A verified doctor graph already exists. A new app would need a narrower job, such as a specialty or a country Doximity does not cover 6.

Demand check

Publish a signup page for a specialty in a country and share it with a society you can reach. Count signups against visits.

Build plan

• Start: verify a small cohort of licensed physicians in a specialty and let them post cases.
• Next: add a directory and a private message once both sides accept.
• Then: add referral routing inside that specialty.
• After that: invite the signup list and watch whether people return the next week.

Copy the build prompt

Build a small web app for verified physicians. Each member proves a license, keeps a profile, follows peers, and posts cases in a private feed. Messages open only after both sides accept. Store members, licenses, posts, follows and messages in a database. Use plain, accessible HTML.

Risks and unknowns

• Doximity already is the US clinician network, with over 85 percent 6 of physicians.
• A fake doctor on the graph is a patient-safety problem. Doximity admits only verified US clinicians 7.
• Sermo already hosts a physician-only community of over 1 million 4 verified doctors.

Questions

Sources

1. 1. The score runs to 100. Evidence is 3 for each fetched fact, capped at 25. Mechanism fit is 5 for each counted mechanism, capped at 20. Demand is 4 for each counted signal, capped at 20. Openness starts at 20 and loses 5 for each verified direct match, and it stops at 0. Build ease starts at 15 and loses 5 for each sourced hard requirement, and it stops at 0, and only when that review is recorded. A page under 50, and any thin page, is left out of the index. Weights are this site's rule, recorded in the project specification on 19 Oct 2026. A judgment step has to agree when the two parents are checked in both orders.
2. 2. Google autocomplete for "linkedin for doctors". Fetched Oct 19, 2026. Ten suggestions, including linkedin for doctors reddit and doximity linkedin.for.doctors. Recorded 2026-10-19.
3. 3. Doximity buys Pathway Medical (CNBC). Published Aug 7, 2025. Describes Doximity as LinkedIn for doctors. IPO on June 24, 2021. Deal consideration and other product names on that page are omitted from public copy. Recorded 2026-10-19.
4. 4. Sermo home. Live. Connect with over 1.5M verified HCPs. Physician community: over 1 million verified doctors. Collaborate across 96+ specialties. Recorded 2026-10-19.
5. 5. About LinkedIn. World's largest professional network with more than 1 billion members in more than 200 countries and territories worldwide. Recorded 2026-10-19.
6. 6. About Doximity. The #1 healthcare professional network. Membership includes over 85% of physicians. Larger membership than the American Medical Association. Live. Recorded 2026-10-19.
7. 7. Doximity home. Live. Free for verified US clinicians. Trusted by over 3 million US clinicians. Largest verified network of healthcare professionals in the US. Recorded 2026-10-19.
8. 8. Google autocomplete for "app like linkedin for doctors". Fetched Oct 19, 2026. Five suggestions, including linkedin like app for doctors. Recorded 2026-10-19.
9. 9. The 5 in the Thursday list is the issue length, not a count of pages on this site. Recorded in the project brief on 18 Oct 2026.