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4 Reasons Why Ask DoctorBase is the Most Efficient Way to SEO and Establish Your Brand Online

  1. Ask DoctorBase is a free service for patients on the DoctorBase platform - currently servicing over 6 million American patients of record.
  2. All answers submitted by healthcare professionals (you) are for entertainment purposes only and do not constitute doctor-patient relationships. All patients must agree to this before using Ask DoctorBase.
  3. Our software and our Marketing Engineering staff review each answer and optimize your answers for keywords valuable to your specialty. It is a well kept secret that doctors (you) - not SEO consultants - are the ones who have the most valuable content prized by search engines. Ask DoctorBase "unlocks and optimizes" your content in the most efficient manner possible with today's technology.
  4. Finally, the doctor who provides the most popular answer - "the Featured Answer," gets an added benefit by allowing patients to write rave reviews about your expertise - reviews that are submitted to both Google and Google Local through our Preferred Data Provider relationship.

Ask Dr. Molly if you have questions or want a personal session on how to best use Ask DoctorBase for maximum marketing impact.

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Molly Maloof, MD

Director of Clinical Content
@DoctorBase

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Cough with plenty of phlegm tells me that might be an older adult with COPD. If the antibiotic treatment is not helping, the you doctor may need to do or repeat sputum culture and sensitivity test to decide on a more effective antibiotic.

If you have not been fully evaluated, then it will be necessary to rule out other possible causes of chronic obstructive and productive, especially in association with bloody sputum and weight loss. If I get your feedback with more details, I might in a better position to narrow down the diagnosis.