🏥 Doctor Availability & Appointment Allocator

This is a full-stack medical appointment booking platform developed as my Final Year Project using the MERN stack.
It enables patients to book appointments with doctors based on real-time availability and handles appointment scheduling, payments, and notifications.

🩺 Separate panels for Doctors and Users
💳 Integrated Razorpay payment gateway
📧 Email notifications using Nodemailer

🚧 Note: This project is not deployed yet.
Please clone the repository and follow the setup instructions to run it locally.

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📌 Features

👨‍⚕️ Doctor Panel

• Manage availability (dates & time slots)
• Receive real-time email notifications for new appointments
• View upcoming and past appointments
• Accept/Reject appointments (optional)

👤 User Panel

• Browse available doctors by specialization/date
• Schedule appointments and make secure payments
• Modify or cancel appointments before confirmation
• Receive email confirmations & reminders

💸 Payment

• Razorpay integration for secure appointment payment

📬 Email System

• Automatic email sent via Nodemailer:
  • Doctor receives email when user books an appointment
  • User gets confirmation/reminder or rescheduling email

🧠 Additional Features

• Auth with JWT
• Protected routes for doctor and user dashboards
• Fully responsive UI
• Admin-like control over schedules

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🧰 Tech Stack

Layer	Tech
Frontend	React.js (with Elastic UI / Tailwind)
Backend	Node.js + Express.js
Database	MongoDB Atlas
Payment	Razorpay
Email	Nodemailer
Auth	JWT + Bcrypt

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📂 Folder Structure

medical-app/ ├── client/ # React frontend │ └── src/ │ ├── pages/ │ ├── components/ │ └── services/ ├── server/ # Express backend │ ├── controllers/ │ ├── models/ │ ├── routes/ │ ├── utils/ # nodemailer, Razorpay setup │ └── middleware/ ├── .env ├── README.md └── package.json

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⚙️ Local Setup Instructions

1. Clone the Repository

git clone https://github.com/Abhiishek-Choudhary/Medicare2.0.git
cd medical-app

2. Setup Backend
bash
cd server
npm install

Create a .env file with:
env
PORT=5000
MONGO_URI=your_mongodb_connection
JWT_SECRET=your_jwt_secret
RAZORPAY_KEY_ID=your_razorpay_key
RAZORPAY_KEY_SECRET=your_razorpay_secret
SMTP_HOST=smtp.yourprovider.com
SMTP_PORT=587
SMTP_USER=youremail@example.com
SMTP_PASS=your_email_password
bash
npm run dev

3. Setup Frontend
bash
cd ../client
npm install
npm run dev
Visit http://localhost:5173

📧 Email Flow (Using Nodemailer)
When user books → Doctor gets a confirmation email with details

When doctor updates → User is notified

When user cancels/reschedules → Both parties receive updates

📬 Contact
👤 Name: Abhishek Chaudhary

📧 Email: akc64016@gmail.com

🐙 GitHub: @Abhiishek-Choudhary

🔗 LinkedIn: (https://www.linkedin.com/in/abhishek-chaudhary-2b276324b/)

🧪 Future Enhancements (Ideas)
Real-time chat between doctor and user

Video consultation via WebRTC / third-party API

Admin dashboard for managing specializations/doctors

SMS notifications using Twilio

Mobile app with React Native