Physician Reviews—A Great Way to Help

You may be familiar with physician reviews -- websites for the purpose of finding information about your doctor or about your potential choice of provider, but you can also use the sites yourself to rate an experience that you have had. This helps both future patients in making a decision to see a specific doctor and it also helps the providers themselves to better their businesses and services.

Physician reviews have a history of being helpful information websites, and there are a lot of aspects to being a medical provider that are important to the business part of running a doctor’s office. Using these sites to rate your experience with your provider will not only be helpful for future patients but it is crucial for providers, who are essentially running small businesses, to have critiques, both positive and negative, to help them make adjustments to serve you and the community better.

When going on-line to write a review, do not be intimidated. Although the more information you can provide the better, you will be guided to rate your experience and your doctor in several categories. The surveys are totally anonymous, so you can feel comfortable telling all the details of your experience with the professional in question.

Of course you will be asked to provide a rating, usually from one to ten, on things like bedside manner, how much time the professional dedicated to your appointment, and other things that deal with the provider himself, but there are a plethora of other things that can make or break an experience, and those are also things that are important to critique.

For example, parking may be a serious issue. If you have to park in a busy area and walk in dangerous parking lots in order to reach the office doors, this is important information to disclose. This will be helpful for those patients who have disabilities, those who are elderly, and those who will be bring young children with them to the appointment. Try to think of every aspect of your experience from the point of view of several demographics of people, this not only helps future patients but it helps the doctor to know what improvements can be made, or what information needs to be given when a new patient is making an appointment. In this circumstance, perhaps the provider will realize that he needs to provide a parking map to make navigating the walk to the front office easier on those who have mobility issues. Perhaps more handicap accessible parking is needed.

It is certainly the little things like parking, waiting, cleanliness, staff friendliness, and other things that seem small that really make up the gist of a successful visit. The doctor you choose is certainly qualified to be providing services, but a sum several incidentals such as those mentioned can change the state of mind for the patient making the entire appointment go awry.

Do your physician a favor and complete your physician reviews on-line.