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Originally Posted by Slava
I talked to a doctor about this and they thought it was pretty unfair. Like someone reviews you and puts specifics in there so the doctor knows he left that review and it’s not really what happened. And the doctor can’t really respond because it’s got to be confidential.
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I dug into it a bit more, and doctors can (could?) pay to claim their profile. This is from 2018:
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/life...ke-ratemdscom/
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A doctor can then “claim” his or her profile and respond to any comments. (Doctors can also set up their own profiles if patients have not done so.)
If doctors are willing to pay a monthly fee of US$179, RateMDs offers various promotions, including the ability to hide up to three comments, place banner advertisements on the profiles of other doctors and receive electronic appointment requests from patients.
“If someone is searching for a particular type of specialty in a given geography, you can make sure you are in that search result – if you pay,” Goodridge says.
For a higher monthly fee of US$359, a doctor’s banner ad will appear in three times more spots than with the lower-priced package.
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$179US/month is asinine. "Pay us, or your name remains tarnished." Sounds a bit like extortion.