Fighting back against doctor rating websites

March 13, 2007

Only a matter of time before this would happen:

Swapceinski acknowledged at least one doctor’s office made multiple, glowing postings in an effort to boost ratings.

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1 Anonymous March 13, 2007 at 1:03 pm: I find it interesting that people seem to be ignoring the fact that most of the ratings are overwhelmingly positive. I can understand the frustration when they get bad ratings and have no way of defending themselves, but on the flip side, it seems as if most people are eager to praise a good doctor. And that’s what most people are doing.
2 Anonymous March 13, 2007 at 8:14 pm: I did the first posting re my surgeon, and it was indeed ‘glowing’, because he was simply wonderful. The worrisome thing to me about those sites, though, is that people can make untrue statements anonymously, statements that are without factual foundation. I wouldn’t like it if that could be done to me!
3 Anonymous February 19, 2008 at 10:37 pm: This is to all the doctors,that get a bad rating/s,if you know you are are a good doctor,and your doing your very best,don’t worry what others say,the world is full of liars,and there is no getting past that,you can’t make a person not to lie.Best wishes.
4 Anonymous February 20, 2008 at 11:47 pm: There are truly some BAD Doctors out there and we need places to be able to let others know they should check out this Doc before they decide to go to them. It at least lets people be warned that there is possibly a bad Dr. and he needs investigating further so they can make an informed decision.
I have rated several Dr’s and all but 1 have been positive.
We need more sites available to the public.
5 Anonymous February 22, 2008 at 10:37 pm: I would not trust any site,where ANYONE can make false ratings.
6 Anonymous January 16, 2009 at 1:24 pm: Where there’s smoke, there’s fire (usually). I’d beware of a doctor who has multiple neg comments