medical-mcp vs filesystem

Side-by-side comparison to help you pick between these two MCP servers.

	medical-mcp by JamesANZ	filesystem by modelcontextprotocol
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medical-mcp · Summary

Medical MCP provides trusted medical data from FDA, WHO, PubMed, RxNorm, and Google Scholar with no API keys required.

filesystem · Summary

A feature-rich MCP server for filesystem operations with dynamic directory access control.

medical-mcp · Use cases

Medical researchers conducting literature reviews without paywalls
Healthcare developers building prototypes with real medical data
Clinicians referencing drug details and health statistics during patient consultations

filesystem · Use cases

Enable AI models to read and write project files during development
Allow Claude or other MCP clients to browse and analyze codebases
Provide secure sandboxed access to specific directories for content generation

medical-mcp · Install

Install in Cursor (Recommended)

Click the install link or use:

cursor://anysphere.cursor-deeplink/mcp/install?name=medical-mcp&config=eyJtZWRpY2FsLW1jcCI6eyJjb21tYW5kIjoibnB4IiwiYXJncyI6WyIteSIsIm1lZGljYWwtbWNwIl19fQ==

Manual Installation

# Clone and build
git clone https://github.com/JamesANZ/medical-mcp.git
cd medical-mcp
npm install
npm run build

# Run server
npm start

Claude Desktop

Add to claude_desktop_config.json:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "medical-mcp": {
      "command": "node",
      "args": ["/absolute/path/to/medical-mcp/build/index.js"]
    }
  }
}

filesystem · Install

Installation

Using NPX

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "filesystem": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@modelcontextprotocol/server-filesystem",
        "/path/to/allowed/directory"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Using Docker

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "filesystem": {
      "command": "docker",
      "args": [
        "run",
        "-i",
        "--rm",
        "--mount", "type=bind,src=/path/to/allowed/dir,dst=/projects/allowed/dir",
        "mcp/filesystem",
        "/projects"
      ]
    }
  }
}

VS Code Extension

Click the installation buttons in the README to install directly in VS Code.

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