Need a clinic or pharmacy that speaks your language? It’s just a click away
Summary
Finding the closest clinic or pharmacy where someone can serve you in your mother tongue is now a click away on your smartphone or computer, thanks to a free website/app with a memorable name — iamsick.ca — created by three U of T students. With the successful soft launch of iamsick.ca, the team — Ryan Doherty, Sherry-Lynn Lee and Audrey Kuo — hopes to raise $9,000 through crowdfunding on indiegogo.com to expand the service. Something like this, that acknowledges the difficulty in language access, is a tremendous help.” The iamsick.ca apps (available for iPhone, Android & Blackberry 10) have been downloaded more than 5,000 times to date. Doherty, a medical biophysics PhD student at the University of Toronto, said the team came up with the idea of the website two years ago, when some friends complained about not knowing where to go when the campus clinic was closed. The online guide works like a GPS device, helping patients locate nearby clinics, pharmacies and hospitals.