Doctor rating web sites: Who’s responsible?
Posted by Sean Keating on October 10th, 2007. Filed under: patient relations, accountability, doctor rating websites, patient relations, web_site_rating.
New Jersey’s Asbury Park Press has published an editorial by Dr. Richard J. Scott, president of the Medical Society of New Jersey, slamming Web sites that allow patients to anonymously rate their doctors.
There should be transparency and accountability here, just as we expect from the press. Free speech does not give someone the right to shout fire on a crowded Internet. How do physicians get their reputations back once the damage is done?
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