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Originally Posted by Squirrel1983
So I was curious and looked up my pdoc's "rating" on vitals.com I was shocked to see it was mediocre overall. Then I read the rcomments and foiund out why. They were either extremely positive or extremely negative. There was no in between. Some of the negative ones made me laugh because unless my pdoc is outright rude to some patients (he never has been to me), I just can't see what the rater says as being true. Sure, I have had some "issues" (like when it was sprung on me that I would see his nurse practitioner instead of him), but I addressed those issues with him. I didn't go and post a negative comment on a rating site. Sure I posted about some of the issues to Psych Central, but no one knows his name here as I did not supply that when I was getting input. I just find it odd to go and post a bad rating based on one bad experience with a pdoc (or any other doctor for that matter).
I mentioned this to my mother who said, "Well these are mental patients rating him. Can you really trust a crazy person's opinion." This upset me greatly as I took it to mean that anyone who sees a pdoc is crazy in her mind, which means she thinks I am crazy. I did not like that comment one bit.
Anyways...does anyone else find humor in ratings for doctors on those doctor rating sites?
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Ive checked out the ratings and with the states licensing board about many medical and mental health providers both for myself and for my clients. I find the ratings online actually reflect what can be found through the state boards.
it doesnt bother me when I find a treatment provider that I see and like contains adverse ratings. I look at it as the saying one shoe doesnt fit every foot. even reading here on psych central I can see a vast diversity of what everyone likes in thier treatment providers.
Some like the kind that are no nonsense, no sugar coating, and have strict rules and boundaries. others find those things in treatment providers to be things like a bad bedside manner, rude, distasteful.
Some people like their treatment providers to be flexible, wording what they want to say in ways the client likes to hear things, and with very few rules and boundaries. other believe this kind of treatment provider is too easy, too much of a push over, I can get away with murder if I had that kind of treatment provider opinions.
every body has their own tastes for what they want in their treatment providers. the ratings are going to reflect this kind of diversity, the good, the bad and the in between.
