Comments on: Doctors and the DMCA

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» Links You Need To Click: 9/20/09 » tombiro.com — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 16:35:23 +0000

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By: hostreviewgeeks

hostreviewgeeks — Wed, 26 Aug 2009 03:04:31 +0000

That’s bs I don’t get it.

By: spiralofhope

spiralofhope — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 14:27:31 +0000

holy crap.

I’ve had some funky non-expiring contracts before, but that one’s nasty. Why would I want to get work from a doctor who is so afraid of being reviewed that they have to pull that kind of crap?

By: Andy Weinberger (Yes, I am related)

Andy Weinberger (Yes, I am related) — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 16:14:03 +0000

I’d guess, not as a lawyer, that it is as unenforceable as the forms some doctors tried to get patients to sign saying the patient could not sue them for malpractice.

That being said, I don’t think most of the sites are very representative of the doctor’s qualities. I suspect that the most likely patients to respond are unhappy ones or perhaps very happy ones; either group is a skewed sample. Also, some of the evaluations are based on very few responses.

Some of the qualities addressed may be important in some aspects, such as the friendliness of the staff or whether the doctor runs on time, but most can not evaluate a doctor’s competence.

As a doctor, I have trouble evaluating a doctor’s competency unless I know a lot about what they do.