The WSJ picks up on the effort to protect physician reputations:
Next time you go to the doctor, look for a new form buried in the stack of insurance and health-history paperwork you’re asked to complete. You might find a contract that would require you ask your doctor for permission to grade him or her online.It’s the brainchild of Medical Justice, a company that already provides doctors with contracts to discourage patients from filing frivolous lawsuits, and to agree to use only board-certified expert witnesses if they do go to court.
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I would think that the physician was incompetent and immediately find someone who was not threatened by being rated.
Also, the majority of people won’t realize that they can rate physicians until you point it out to them.
Pax,
MLO
That company Medical Justice – are doctors really buying into this stuff?
Yes, just what patients and doctors both need…another freaking form.
We’re on the same side, folks.
In ordinary human relationships, it is rude and sinful to talk about people behind their back–especially anonymously. The manly way to deal with disputes is to a person’s face, and failing that, to simply not deal with them, or to seek redress through channels. It is grossly unfair to attack anyone in a forum where only one side is heard.
I think it is perfectly reasonable for docs to expect patients with whom they seek a good doctor patient relationship to avoid that sort of behavior. All good relationships are reciprocal and docs don’t do that to their patients. I haven’t heard of any patient blackballing sites. I would think that if you are so prickly and guarded and have so little confidence in your referral source as to make the judgement of incompetence based on that request along–that doctor would want you to go somewhere else anyway. Who wants suspicious clients or patients?
Ditto Anon 8:16P!
Support Medical Justice and its effort to bring back respect to the true medical profession. Hopefully MJ will keep their rates reasonable and affordable.
Another form? Try going to providers of “best efforts” only. From the get go, there is advise and transparency for no absolute guarantees for unreasonable expectations – w/c patients are prone to have: instant cure for the illnesses built upon years of unhealthy lifestyle and aging itself!
What is MJ offering? Unenforceable contracts?
Even if they are unenforceable, they communicate to people how you expect out of the doctor patient relationship up front and are likely to encourage self-elimination of those with a radically different view. The contentious, argumentative and conflict prone may just slam the clipboard down and walk out–which is a good thing.
Most people accept that an agreement is an obligation which they must honor, whether the law forces them to do so or not.
Now if only the provider class would have the willingness to do the same for the plethora of junk science PI, toxic tort and WC cases in which causation is established based on the post-hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy of relying on the veracity and accuracy of a litigant in regards to their wholly subjective complaints and some purported “abnormality” when it comes to clinical examination. Oh wait… the providers are happy to spread ‘em for the trial attorneys then with a nary a complaint of frivolous lawsuits. One need only look at the garbage testimony of Michael Baden in the Phil Spector murder case – pure unadulterated speculation with zero scientific basis (as is much of “clinical causation testimony). One need only to look at the role of the provider as profiteer vs. defendant to determine their level of complaint with the legal system and with the patient class.
BTW, Anon 5:43 PM, the providers and patients are about on the same side as the fox and the chicken.
As a a person that recieves Medical care I feel that the system is broke when it comes to reporting bad doctors. I have used rateMD and I did let the person know that I do so with a very bad comment posted I feel that Ratemd needs to allow a person to post the name if that person wants to I sure do. I have been fighting this doctor for seven years now and feel that the Medical community should have done the fight and not me. This doctors kills and is protected I feel that if good doctors stepped up to the plate and removed the doctors that are there just for the money the system would be a better system. This doctor conspired and then altered the records in the death of my son. I have had no help in fightin him till now and it as I said has been seven years. So in closing Stand up doc and take out the bad ones don’t hide the bad guy push him out for the wolfs. if you let the wolfs get one or two they may think that it is better to be honest and do the right thing. Laws are there to protect the Doctors Michigan is a prodoctor state. it is very hard to get any one to listen and most give up. I have fought for seven years and in that time 17 babys have died and made it to court. how many like me could never get to court due to the lie. Police are involved now Hopfully he will go to Jail but the system is broke doctors good doctors are the only one that can fix it.
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