Online Physician Rating Sites - Here to Stay

Their value will continue to be debated, but one thing is certain, online physician rating sites are here to stay.

Elizabeth Cohen of CNN Health offers five tips for smart surfing on physician rating Web sites.

1. Decide what you care about
2. Look for volume
3. Look for specifics, not adjectives
4. Look for patterns
5. Use reviews along with objective information

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And one wonders, can anonymous online hospital rating sites be far behind?

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http://msspnexus.blogs.com/mspblog/2006/11/anonymous_inter.html
http://msspnexus.blogs.com/mspblog/2007/10/wellpoint-insur.html

Comments

[Alex]

Thats very great that there are online physician rating sites. Now it'll be easy to know about the disease and its remedy. This would definetely save the time and money and also one can get good suggestions too.

[pfezziwig]

There's already a site which offers the hospitals ratings to Healthcare Reviews, www.healthcarereviews.com , it allows all health related service ratings.

Patient ratings are normally biased and statistics have shown you usually get extreme points of view, rather than feedback from moderately opinionated.

That being said, online ratings are a lot better than none at all. Why haven't medical professional organizations produced their own internal ratings and reviews and offered them to the public anyways?