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At this point... and the way medicare/medicaid reimbursement is.... Docs should rate whether or not they want to put up with patients for that sorta reimbursement. :meanie: :laugh:
 
Read some of the forums.....

Gotta admit some are nasty.... some are valid... but it's hard to judge from just one side if what was done was right or wrong...

Which is why there are malpractice lawsuits to begin with....
 
dutchman said:
This is horrible😱 Anyone can get on that site and rate a doctor even if they have never recieved treatment from that doctor(basically lie).
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Considering that the people most likely to "rate" their doctor are those who are the most dissatisfied (not to mention the anonymous and totally unrestricted nature of the commentary, which encourages "trolls"), I would take anything on that web site with a huge grain of salt. It's basically the equivalent of electronic graffiti. If anyone decided not to come to me based on something they read on that site, I wouldn't want them as a patient in the first place. 🙄
 
nasty, i saw a rating on a Dr. in my city were the patient gave her a 1 in all categories just because the secretary was rude to her over the phone!!!

Incredible!!!
 
This page is one of the easiest way you can destroy someones reputation!!

I bet a lawyer is behind the creation of this webpage!!!
 
Bear in mind that CMS is already using the "core measures" to rate hospitals and docs and that pay for performance will utilize similar types of patient satisfaction surveys to set reimbursement rates for docs in the near future.
 
mig26x said:
nasty, i saw a rating on a Dr. in my city were the patient gave her a 1 in all categories just because the secretary was rude to her over the phone!!!

Incredible!!!
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Hmmm....who hired the secretary? If a pt can't get past the secretary, what recourse do they have?

IMO - that is a vital position which needs to be filled by a empathetic, resposiblle, yet caring individual.....(too often the Dr's wife🙁 _
 
docB said:
Bear in mind that CMS is already using the "core measures" to rate hospitals and docs and that pay for performance will utilize similar types of patient satisfaction surveys to set reimbursement rates for docs in the near future.
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The major (and all-important, IMO) difference between insurance company-based patient satisfaction surveys and the "RateMDs.com" site is that at least you're assured that the respondents are legitimate patients of the physician being rated.

For that matter, my group conducts its own annual patient satisfaction survey. It's not like we're uninterested in what our patients think of us (key words...our patients...not some anonymous Internet trolls.)

mig26x said:
This page is one of the easiest way you can destroy someones reputation!!
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It's equally easy to artificially enhance someone's rating by posting multiple glowing comments. It's totally unreliable.
 
I thought this was a funny review of a doctor by a hypochondriac:

Everytime you go to visit this doctor, he makes you sit for 45 min fiddling your fingers before he finally comes. What does he do after he comes? Well, he asks you what your problem is...every single visit. Then he repeats what he repeated over the last time and recommends tests which are totally unnecessary. A doctors honesty and integrity are a MUST I would say when you go to any doctor. You don't want to be ripped off for every possible test that the doctor can think of. Go get this MRI, get a nerve test done, get X-Rays and finally what does he understand out of all of these tests? Nothing!!
 
Another classic review of Oprah...I mean, a 64 slice,,,eeerrr... i mean a doctor:

That 64 slice machine found a cancer that I didnt know was there and was missed on a chest xray. I have recommended to my bothers and sisters. I think from my what I saw on the Oprah show and what I read in the papers every adult who smoked or has someone in their family should get a 64 slice CT to find cancer and heart disease. Oprah is hardly ever wrong. In retrospect, all those times I have gone to a doctor so he can feel my stomach and listen to my lungs pales in impact that the 64 slice CT had. I think it saved my life and Dr. [name removed] is not arrogant, he just knows what he is doing and if you do not like his advice, well, maybe you have a deathwish
 
i kinda like the website. just like any other service or product you can purchase, this is another opinion/review site. surprised its not connected to epinions.com
 
I think that website is too early at this stage to have been made public. There are not enough ratings to properly evaluate a physician. But it can totally ruin a physician's reputation just because one patient was unsatisfied. There should be at least 20 evaluations before a doctor's evaluation is made public.

Things like this along with malpractice lawyers do nothing but degrade overall quality of health care. I don't care if anyone argues against this but we all know that at the end of the day, giving doctors a hard time does not improve but eventually degrade overall quality of the profession. Some bad apples need to be weeded out but current approaches are just wrong.
 
Uff, I just "love" this one:

"Sad, very sad medical care in my opinion. You make an appointment, you think you are getting a staff Dr. but SURPRISE, you actually get a resident in training. You think that perhaps you would be assigned a Dr. that you could go back to regularly, who you could get to know, but SURPRISE, you find out that the person who you see on your first visit, may not be back in the office for a MONTH, so if you have a question about a procedure that was prescribed, another resident who has never heard of you, calls you back and has almost no idea what the other Dr. did except for what they see on the computer screen about you. You will never get the same Dr. if you go back, so be prepared to only go there if you have an emergency problem. Preventitve care is pretty much out of the question. The reception desk is rude, and many times they don't answer the phones so you have to call back again and again before they answer the phones. Overall it's pretty unpleasant, welcome to managed healthcare."
 
OK, I just had to post this. These are all a set of comments about one particular doctor:

"I agree with other postings. Religious beliefs should not be a part of an examination. Made me feel VERY uncomfortable and even called my insurance company to report her."
"Made several rude comments. Tried to convince me to join her church, even handed me a leaflet. I feel like she did a very sloppy check-up."
"Her office was very disorganized and playing loud Christian music. She came back from personal shopping 45 minutes late for my appointment, but did not even apologize. She was rude in answering my questions ("Rediculous!" she would say). She had no bedside manner and would make inscrutable comments like "you need to exercise because your stomach is tight" (?!!) and "your lower body is weak" without any further explanation. It was the most bizarre experience I've ever had at a doctor's office, and I will not be going back for seconds."
"I had a similar experience--I must say she was very nice, but she spent 20 minutes telling me about her religious beliefs. While I felt her heart was in the right place, and that the things she was suggesting to me were out of good intentions...it made me uncomfortable & I felt it was inappropriate behavior for a GP."
"She should keep her religious beliefs out of the office and not on her patients. I thought it was very demeaning of her to tell me to go to church! 45 minutes late, but doctors are always late so I guess that's normal. Office was kinda untidy."
"She told me that I had a chronic urinary tract infections because I had sex outside of marriage. Though she gave me antibiotics, she also suggested that I repent. While seeing a specialist, I later found out I had a congenital disorder that predisposed me to urinary tract infections."
 
GoofyDoc said:
"She told me that I had a chronic urinary tract infections because I had sex outside of marriage. Though she gave me antibiotics, she also suggested that I repent. While seeing a specialist, I later found out I had a congenital disorder that predisposed me to urinary tract infections."
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this one is priceless!! LOL!!

I can imagine the plan in her SOAP:

P: go see a priest and repent!!

LOL
 
tncekm said:
Another classic review of Oprah...I mean, a 64 slice,,,eeerrr... i mean a doctor:

That 64 slice machine found a cancer that I didnt know was there and was missed on a chest xray. I have recommended to my bothers and sisters. I think from my what I saw on the Oprah show and what I read in the papers every adult who smoked or has someone in their family should get a 64 slice CT to find cancer and heart disease. Oprah is hardly ever wrong. In retrospect, all those times I have gone to a doctor so he can feel my stomach and listen to my lungs pales in impact that the 64 slice CT had. I think it saved my life and Dr. [name removed] is not arrogant, he just knows what he is doing and if you do not like his advice, well, maybe you have a deathwish
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It's the best thing since 64 sliced bread.

My inlaws are like that patient. My mother-in-law hates her orthpaedic surgeon because he won't chat with her and waste a good portion of his day making small talk, even though he did such a good job on her knee replacement that she only needed four weeks of rehab and walks perfectly now. She loved her old internist (who died a few years ago), a pleasant guy who hadn't read a book of journal article since the Korean War.
 
Panda Bear said:
It's the best thing since 64 sliced bread.

My inlaws are like that patient. My mother-in-law hates her orthpaedic surgeon because he won't chat with her and waste a good portion of his day making small talk, even though he did such a good job on her knee replacement that she only needed four weeks of rehab and walks perfectly now. She loved her old internist (who died a few years ago), a pleasant guy who hadn't read a book of journal article since the Korean War.
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I tell this to anyone who will listen. When you ask someone "Are Dr Panda or Dr Fetus good doctors?" What people hear is "Are Dr Panda or Dr Fetus nice?"
 
"He called my pharmacy with the wrong dosage of a heart medication. When the pharmacist told what I had been taking for over a year he still insisted on the lower dosage percription."

- Four years of medical school and three years of residency and we still have to prescribe what the pharmacists says?

"He recommended a colonoscopy for my grandfather (who is 80); I called to ask why - his response was that my grandfather is 80 and has never had one before. The doctor had not done any preliminary tests (blood or stool) to support his recommendation for this procedure."

- Oh, that's right - I should have ordered that test for colon cancer - along with the test for brain cancer, appendicitis, and stroke. Next time, I'll wait for those results before I actually take a look.

"I liked Dr. XXXX until I got a tick bite. First she refused to remove the tick on my pregnant abdomen and then she refused to deliver my baby after I got a bull's-eye rash all over my abdomen. She did not seem concerned at all - and now my baby is a two-year old with chronic Lyme disease. I worry for him every day. Would his outcome have been better if she had acted in a timely fashion and treated it as the emergency it was?

- And GOD forbid the patient actually takes out the tick by herself. Then again, I guess having a tick stuck to your skin is an "emergency." Must have been there a few days for that Bullseye rash to develop...

"He scarred me for life. I had a baby and just wanted my breasts back to the way they were before child birth. The first breast enhancement came out all rippled, saggy and way bigger than I agreed to. I looked like a**** star and was very unhappy."

- No comment.
 
I would love to have a "ratemypatient" website, that doctors filled out.

That way I could do background checks on them before deciding to take them into my practice.

But that would be wrong...
 
All premeds should really read some of these comments to get a real sense of what your getting yourself into. Say hello to your future patients!:scared:
 
I found Dr. xxx condescending, hostile, and openly sardonic with me when I said I did not agree with him. He acted as though I was incompetent and untrustworthy and I found the experience to be humiliating. I seriously considered reporting him to the Texas Medical Association.

followed by

Rock on! I feel great! thank you so much for the great help and screw that person who thinks you suck! You rock and rule! Also tell GA is not gangsta, but i am! Thanks a bunch!

:laugh:
 
I'm currently applying in ENT, and I actually support the existence of this website. Would be proud to have my name on it. Whether we like it or not, our bedside manner makes a difference. Patients may not have the most sophisticated metric by which they measure us, but then, we're going into this profession to serve them and not for any other reason.
 
Sonnet said:
I'm currently applying in ENT, and I actually support the existence of this website. Would be proud to have my name on it. Whether we like it or not, our bedside manner makes a difference. Patients may not have the most sophisticated metric by which they measure us, but then, we're going into this profession to serve them and not for any other reason.
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Thanks for making me smile. 🙂
 
Sonnet said:
I'm currently applying in ENT, and I actually support the existence of this website. Would be proud to have my name on it. Whether we like it or not, our bedside manner makes a difference. Patients may not have the most sophisticated metric by which they measure us, but then, we're going into this profession to serve them and not for any other reason.
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Thanks for making me laugh. :laugh:
 
Sonnet said:
I'm currently applying in ENT, and I actually support the existence of this website. Would be proud to have my name on it. Whether we like it or not, our bedside manner makes a difference. Patients may not have the most sophisticated metric by which they measure us, but then, we're going into this profession to serve them and not for any other reason.
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I guess then you'd be fine with a negative review like this one:
"I went to see this doctor a number of times with stomach pains. He did not stress the seriousness of my possible condition. I put things off. He was very agreeable rather than assertive. He will prescribe pretty much whatever (can't blame doctors too much for that b/c we've trained them to give us the prescriptions we want). However, my appendicitis went undiagnosed for 8 months. I had warning signs in my blood work, in my symptoms and in the descriptions I gave him. I needed a cat scan, but put it off b/c of the cost. He reassured me that if I felt ok, I was ok. I was on antibiotics which hid the infection. I wound up hospitalized for 2 weeks after my gyno found the infection in the appendix. So much for the internist. He is a nice guy and felt bad about it later and he did follow up with me in the hospital. Appendicitis is actually very difficult to diagnos, but I felt there were adequate warnings."
 
I found one doctor in my state who had something like 27 reviews (while the vast majority of the rated doctors had one or two-- the second most was eight. Each of the reviews was VERY similiar, and was glowing. I'm sure those were actual reviews by patients! What I found the most amusing was that if they'd been a little more creative, and limited themselves to, oh, I don't know, say 8-10 reviews, they might have fooled someone. Instead it was laughable.
 
Sonnet said:
I'm currently applying in ENT, and I actually support the existence of this website. Would be proud to have my name on it. Whether we like it or not, our bedside manner makes a difference. Patients may not have the most sophisticated metric by which they measure us, but then, we're going into this profession to serve them and not for any other reason.
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Thanks for making me barf :barf:
 
Sonnet said:
I'm currently applying in ENT.
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Great - after you've taken full days of consults, seen countless clinic patients, performed hundreds of procedures, and have been doing this for a few more years, let us all know how you feel then...
 
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