I have a lot to be thankful for.
I am particularly thankful to be able to do a job I love and live in a part of the country where every woman I meet is great– interesting, insightful, intelligent. Just great women.
Recently I was told I received the “Patient Choice Award.” Always curious, and wondering if this is some kind of weird marketing ploy, I researched it.
Every month, 40,000 patients provide online feedback about their experiences with their doctors. They rate bedside manner, how much time you spend directly with your doctor (versus their nurses or magazines waiting), follow up, courtesy of the office staff, and the doctor’s soundness of medical opinion.
What I found was this information was compiled from a collection of websites including google, right health, vitals.com among others. “Over the course of the year, these patient reviews totaled hundreds of thousand patient opinions. While physicians generally receive positive reviews from their patients, only a select few receive uniformly rave reviews across the board. Of those that receive rave reviews, only physicians like yourself– with near perfect scores- have been voted by their patients for this honor. In fact, of the nations 720,000 active physicians, less than 5% were accorded this honor by their patients.”
Yay.
To my wonderful patients, thank you so much for this award. Happy Thanksgiving.