A two-sided clinical case network
Clinical case matching for doctors, patients, and caregivers.
SameCase is a clinical learning network with 67 public, clearly labelled illustrative teaching cases. Verified doctors worldwide can contribute de-identified cases; patients can describe a situation without an account, name, or email and receive educational comparisons and questions to discuss with their own clinician. Automated privacy checks reduce risk but cannot guarantee de-identification.
For doctors
Match, discuss, and contribute clinical cases.
Doctors from any country can explore teaching examples, then match and publish de-identified cases once their jurisdiction-specific registration is verified.
For patients & caregivers
Prepare a clearer story and better questions.
Describe what's happening without creating an account or providing a name or email. Explore public teaching examples, receive questions to bring to your doctor, and optionally request privacy review before verified clinicians can see the individual description. Residual re-identification risk remains in free text.
Practical starting points
Templates and checklists you can use now
One-page medical summary builder
Create a printable visit brief or de-identified clinical case summary entirely in your browser—nothing is sent or saved.
Use template →Symptom diary & timeline template
Track daily observations, then turn onset, patterns, impact, medicines, and questions into a one-page visit summary.
Use template →Specialist appointment checklist
Prepare the referral question, one-page timeline, medicines, records, images, and next steps.
Use template →Case de-identification checklist
Review prose, dates, combined clues, files, images, metadata, and governance before sharing.
Use template →Case summary & referral template
Copy a clinical one-liner, case summary, or referral letter with an explicit question and coordination plan.
Use template →Medical test & diagnosis checklist
Ask what a test will change, how to prepare, its limits and harms, who explains the result, and what happens next.
Use template →Safe online case-sharing checklist
Remove identifiers, keep the timeline useful, choose the right audience, and turn similar cases into questions—not diagnoses.
Use template →Peer case-discussion template
Lead with the decision question, preserve the timeline, separate facts from inference, and make ownership explicit.
Use template →Constructed for education
Start with the symptom pattern, not a diagnosis
These plain-language guides compare important possibilities and explain when urgent care matters before linking to a constructed teaching case. They are educational starting points, never personal diagnoses.
Swelling without hives
What can make recurrent swelling different from a typical allergic reaction?
Explore pattern →Drooping eyelid and double vision
Why do symptoms that fluctuate or worsen with use change the questions to ask?
Explore pattern →Weakness rising after an infection
Which breathing, swallowing, heart-rate, and progression signs make this urgent?
Explore pattern →Painless jaundice and a pancreatic mass
How can inflammatory and malignant explanations overlap, and why must both be assessed?
Explore pattern →How the two sides connect
A patient can submit without direct identity fields → a privacy reviewer must approve any opt-in before verified doctors can add educational context → the patient takes better questions to their own clinician. Automated checks cannot eliminate residual re-identification risk. Clearly labelled examples seed the teaching library while real de-identified contributions grow. Educational only — never a diagnosis, prescription, or a doctor–patient relationship.
Frequently asked questions
Is SameCase medical advice?
No. SameCase is an educational platform. It shows clearly labelled teaching examples and, as the network grows, de-identified case patterns. It suggests questions to discuss with your own doctor; it never diagnoses, treats, or creates a doctor–patient relationship.
Is it free?
Yes — free for doctors and free for patients. No ads, and we don't sell data.
How do you verify doctors?
Doctors from any country can apply with the registration held in their jurisdiction. SameCase uses a dependable official-register check where one is supported and a private, documented manual review against the relevant medical authority everywhere else. Identity and professional registration are checked separately before publishing unlocks. The registration number is private and never displayed; verification applies only to the named jurisdiction and is not a worldwide licence or endorsement.
What happens to my data as a patient?
We do not request an account, name, or email. Your case is keyed by a secret retrieval code. A scanner and server-side scrubbing reduce common identifier risk, but neither confirms de-identification and residual re-identification risk remains. If you opt in to doctor input, the individual narrative stays quarantined until a privacy reviewer approves it; it is never placed on a public page.
Where do the "similar cases" come from?
The public library begins with clearly labelled illustrative teaching cases. Patient-side matching is limited to those public constructed examples; currently verified doctors can separately match across eligible clinician contributions. A similar story can have a completely different cause, so the output is educational context and questions for your doctor, not an answer or diagnosis.
I'm a doctor — why should I contribute cases?
Contributors get the matching engine for their own tough cases, permanent citable case IDs, peer endorsements, and charter status for early members. The corpus you help build is the tool you use — every case you add makes your own matches better.