This app used to be amazing! I'm not a medical professional (I teach college chemistry) but have always been fascinated by the human body. When I discovered this app last year, I fell in love! I learned more about the body and diseases in a few short months than I had in my entire life. Sadly, that mostly ended after the update-of-exclusion a short while back. The powers that be decided that Figure1 was no longer to be the wonderful educational community that I had grown to love, and eliminated most of the features that made it so. Before, the community of practicing doctors would often post cases for med students to try to solve and were so friendly and warm and supportive as they guided them toward the correct diagnoses. I've noticed that this type of activity has decreased to almost nothing from what it was before. Or, perhaps, I'm only allowed to see this little because I'm not of the anointed class? I didn't know it was possible to be personally offended by an app update until this app update. Thanks, Figure1 for this last, truly memorable educational experience. FWIW, the app still has some value. And if you're new to it (and not a medical professional) you'll never know how much you missed out on, so, it's probably worth a try. However, I am heartbroken that this "update" destroyed such a brilliant resource.

Happy to return after an extended absence due to SARS and a Septal Wall MI second to the same. We never know the time or date but once we skip over the stick we’re always ready to return to what we know and understand, renewed.We owe it to our patients and students to push each and every one of them to see not only the disease but the person to realize the lack of family interaction when patients are critical can lead to more deaths, longer recovery times, more stress on healthcare workers as well as other staff, and a loss of hope for the patient. We must strive to understand even when tired and worn that we are their link to humanity and while our time is precious and must be spread incredibly thin - we are their only true human interaction at times and can be extremely important to their recovery. Take Heart and Give It In Return For if We Lose This One Special Gift We Will Lose Humanity.

I love this app, it's helped me learn a lot as a nursing student. One thing that needs some fixing is the new comment section. It's definitely still a little buggy and it's hard to follow a thread sometimes. I don't like that you have to click on a reply and it takes you to another page to read the subsequent replies. It's cumbersome and makes it very difficult to follow a conversation. I also don't like the fact that you can't scroll through all the pictures of a post on the made feed anymore. I don't like having to click the picture just see the rest of the post. Last thing- it would be super cool if you had a trending page or most favorited page. That would make it easier to find some of the really amazing cases that get hundreds of likes. I scroll by them every once in a while but it would be nice to have the extra popular posts in their own spot for easy viewing.

This app is great if you want to gawk at medical stuff, not so great if you’re actually looking to learn. I look at Figure 1 because I want to learn. I want to see more things than I can't see on a daily basis in a clinical setting. I was under the impression that DX, labs and other pertinent info would be posted along with the photos. But really, most of the posts are just guessing games ("Help me figure out what this is!"). If I wanted that, I could go to any medical specialty forum online. I could even go to reddit for this. And it's not helpful to me if everyone with an opinion can leave a comment, then having to scroll down the comments to find where the original poster decides to reply with the correct answer -- if they even reply. I follow medical case study instagram accounts because they tell me what I'm seeing and the treatment and other pertinent information. You don’t get any of that with most posts on here. I think Figure 1 can be a powerful educational tool if its own mediocre posts and obnoxious comments don't kill it first.

When I downloaded this app I was under the impression that the posts would be clinical cases for readers to make guesses to diagnoses and treatments from a poster who already knows the answer AND can explain it. However, this app lets anyone post, and the good posts ( like the ones I was just referring to) get buried under nurses or medical students asking for help solving their personal clinical issues...I feel like there are plenty of other forums and online resources that are better suited for those purposes. As a medical student,myself, I would get more out of this app if it was regulated to some extent (maybe and up/down arrow to get rid of unwanted post?). Another idea: have a section of the post be the answer to the question. If the poster doesn't have an answer, they can't post.

RN Nursing Student here: This application was designed to be a forum for education and it is just that. It's phenomenal, there's so much real-world applicable information to be learned here; and this is stuff you would never learn in school. Being able to converse with medical professionals from other countries is especially added bonus for me. Not to mention we now can have opinions of medical professionals from different countries all on one complicated case - just because of this one application. And once you have your licensure, you can even become verified adding to your credibility. This app is just simply great, I highly recommend it to any interested health professional!!!