Waiving for doctors

Waiving Your Right to Review:

[Via HealthLawProf Blog]
Yesterday’s Talk of the Nation has a panel discussion concerning reviews of doctor performance appearing on websites and some doctors who are asking patients to sign waivers that they will not post items on websites without approval. The brief write-up…

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An interesting response. Of course, what is the penalty if one writes a review? Having to deal with jerks who are patients is probably just as bad as a doctor who is incompetent or has terrible manners. But people talk about their doctors all the time. This just makes it more public. So there should be a way for the doctors to respond to poor reviews.

But what happens if you tell a friend who then writes a bad review? And I would imagine that a patient who serially gives bad reviews would find a hard time getting a doctor. Doctors can use Google just as easily.

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