Docs seek gag orders to stop patients' reviews
March 3, 2009 By LINDSEY TANNER , AP Medical Writer
(AP) -- The anonymous comment on the Web site RateMDs.com was unsparing: "Very unhelpful, arrogant," it said of a doctor. "Did not listen and cut me off, seemed much too happy to have power (and abuse it!) over suffering people."
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I don't think that doctors should any more nor any less be judged by a different standard than restaurants. In some ways a wake up call to the doctors from patients isn't a bad thing. I am sure many of us have dealt with unfeeling/unhelpful or other poor doctors. Just as, I am sure, that the majority of doctors are caring, kind, and compassionate.
As in all asymmetric relationships, those with the power are reluctant to give it up. Well, now that the consumer has power too, that should encourage the less effective doctors to behave more like the businesses they are.
Now if only we had the same leverage over payment processors (mo, folks it isn't insurance, it is payment management). I would be absolutely delighted to feed back the horrors of the payment company I have had to work with. But the payment company does its dastardly work through my employer. And we know how much leverage there is in that avenue.