There's a site: www.ratemds.com that has been in the news lately.
It's much like the ratemyteacher.com site where you give your doctor a rating based on your opinion of them.
Well doctors are in an uproar about this and they want the site to disclose people's names who give them a bad rating.
Do you agree with this?
I mean frankly, if you are a good doctor you will get a good rating.
Mind you, I can see where someone could seriously damage a doctor's reputation as well, but wouldn't the overall speak for itself? Besides, doctors can respond to the comments, much as the teachers can to the comments students make about them.
All these sites are anonymous. Do you think that doctors, teachers, or any of these people have a right to make a site disclose people's names under these circumstances? They are suing for "libel".
Thoughts?
2007-03-14 06:30:25 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous in News & Events ➔ Current Events
I personally like these sites as it gives us some feedback on performance, so we can make some educated choices or at least have an idea of the type of people we're dealing with.
However, very libelous comments can ruin someone's career, so short of a doctor coming back with feedback saying "this person is a liar" which doesn't look very professional, what are they to do?
Interesting to see what the ruling will be there.
2007-03-14 06:51:42 · update #1
Puck you made me laugh...I thought the same thing too...www.rateyourpoliticians.com! LOL
We should put our heads together and start that site... ;~)
2007-03-14 10:50:06 · update #2
I think these sites are a great way of communicating with other people about your personal experience with a doctor. I mean if you read the same bad thing about the same doctor then that would suggest a problem.
I don't think a good physician will have a problem with this site, but the doctors with a God complex will have a hard time having people he feels superior to, evaluating him.
I say we should have a site like this for politicians too.
2007-03-14 07:24:07 · answer #1 · answered by puckbunny 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
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2016-05-28 09:11:57 · answer #2 · answered by Gisela 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think these sorts of feedback-type sites are a good thing. I do think they are covering themselves if they are able to respond to certain posts.
I don't think peoples names should be posted, but I do think that in some cases (in particular extremely serious claims) that the doctors should have the ability to have those claims refuted or possibly removed.
The only down-side to these sorts of sites I know of is that unhappy people are the #1 source of comments.
2007-03-14 06:42:01 · answer #3 · answered by nova_queen_28 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋