Online reviews

[DoubleBogey]

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Like hotels or eBay sellers/buyers, we are being rated constantly. This may be a good or bad thing depending upon your perspective, but what is one to do when someone with mental health issues enters the process. I’ve seen several individuals with mental health issues - severe depression, bipolar disorder, etc - who have rated physicians poorly, which reflects online.
There is no recourse, one must just take it and move on. It highlights the difficulty in dealing with mental health patients in this online-rating era.
Doctors suing patients for slander has happened, but the result is poor and the intended outcome is rarely achieved.

Any thoughts?

 

[jhamaican]

thoughts:

Patients rate doctors on stupid things: like "he didn't give me antibiotics for my viral URI, therefore he is a bad doctor, 1 star review".
Patients in the day and age of google think they know everything. Couldn't be farther from the truth.
They grade doctors on silly things such as how polite the nursing staff is.

Patients would rather have a doctor who hands out antibiotics/opiates to all comers with a beautiful office and no wait rather than see a competent doctor.

Just the reality of the situation.

 

[jdh71]

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