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How Reliabe Are Online Doctor Rating Systems? |
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Written by Webmaster
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Wednesday, 25 February 2009 |
By Daniel Millions
 With today's rapid advancements in information technology and the high increase in the number of internet users, everyone is aware about the ratings and reviews of products and services in any field.
Even in healthcare services, the doctor ratings and doctor reviews have gathered greater relevance in the recent times. Since these kinds of services are increasingly used by people around the world, there is greater demand for professionalism, interaction and feedback. For this reason, even in the healthcare field, the doctor ratings and doctor reviews have gathered greater importance for customers.
Not only customers after seeking healthcare from clinics and hospitals come back to the internet to post their experiences of the services they received here, but also many prospective customers carry out intensive research about the credentials of the doctors before they visit them. They search out and browse through the websites that provide in depth information about different doctors and then make the choice for the best doctor.
Although this seems to be quite convenient for the prospective customers to just log on to the website and
find the best doctor, yet there are certain points one needs to note while carrying out this action. Not all websites are really genuine towards the purpose of rating and reviewing doctors.
Just like there are some websites that pose as customer forums, but are actually promoted by the companies themselves to generate positive feedback about their products, there are also many websites that are secretly supported by doctors themselves and help them promote their services. In some websites, where posting is free for just anybody with a free account, the doctor may ask his spouse or friend or colleague to post a positive feedback about the service.
This can be very misleading for the prospective customer. The customer might assume that this kind of a posting must have been given by a patient and the confidence generated by this positive posting makes him visit the doctor and take up the treatment. But expectations may just fall in this case immediately.
Even doctors have been complaining against the service of rating and reviewing them on just any other website. The websites may just want to blemish the image of a particular doctor and may just allow such postings. Even customers, who have behaved rudely with doctors, may just go back over the internet and start giving bad complaints about them more out of personal anger than dissatisfaction of services.
In such cases, the doctors reputation would suffer a lot and they need to spend some real time in defending and gathering it back. The challenge is to understand the reliability of such websites. Not all websites are of course set up for the purpose of reviewing.
They could also be set up for just gaining internet trafficking and increasing online advertisement revenues. In this case, they do not serve the genuine purpose of educating the customers and increasing the value of professionalism and helping the good doctors reach out more patients.
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