There are new radical changes in the doctor patient relationship.
While more and more people use the internet to find a doctor, they are also reading patient reviews of that doctor.
There are now dozens of websites with comments on more than 200,000 physicians across the country.
But some doctors are sick of this, saying the sources are often anonymous - and they are unreliable.
I love my doctors, I think they are great, I finally have a pain management doctor who understands my situation, isn't making me take crazy medicines like weekly testosterone injections like the last guy did, he doesn't freak out over the high white cell count or the high blood pressure like the last one did either, and he is the doctor who found the thing wrong with my neck, the vertebrae closing in on my spinal cord killing me, he saved my life.Some are going so far as to insist their patients sign a contract that they will not post any reviews online.
And my surgeon, he continues to be one of the most caring and compassionate doctors I've ever been a patient of, and I've seen literally over 2 dozen different doctors and surgeons in the last 10 years before finding him.
If they asked me to sign a contract to not talk about them online, I'd have to ask why because I have nothing but glowing praise for them.
I understand that others may not and that's why some doctors are now wanting these contracts, but wouldn't a doctor want a patient like me who has nothing but good to say about them on a possible forum where others may be badmouthing them?
I'd sign it if I had to choose between signing it and being allowed to see them anymore, but I don't think it's right that doctors may be forcing patients do sign these kinds of contracts.






would it be legal for them to do that? They might be having people do it but is it legal for them to do it...
It seems as if these doctors are iffy at best with their ethics.
It almost seems as if they are dirty old men swearing you to secrecy after they touch you in a bad place. I hate that ;-)