Doctors don’t want to be rated online, afraid to lose business
8/03/2009Doctors are making patients sign EULAs that make sure they can’t make any comments about them online (on websites like RateMDs). I think this is total garbage, and if your doctor is looking for you to sign something similar, get a new one. Wouldn’t it be funny if professors made you sign a paper that said you cant rate them at RateMyProfessor.com? What about having to sign something so you don’t rate products on Amazon or Epinions, that would be funny too.
“They’re basically forcing the patients to choose between health care and their First Amendment rights, and I really find that repulsive,” Swapceinski said.
[Docs seek gag orders to stop patients' reviews (AP)]
Luckily they will never be able to stop posting on the Internet and put “out of court settlement” into extinction. This is simply silly legislature, and the doctors that are complaining are clearly the bad ones. How about this suggestion: improve your practice so the reviews you get on the sites and blogs are good, then use that to sell yourself.