How ridiculous! Potential Patients have every right to know how good a Doctors going to be. I'd be finding a different Doctor if mine was willing to spend so much of his patients money to to be rated. This is a poor Doctor.

A doctor who goes to irrational lengths to suppress information about himself is questionable. Don't such doctors realize irrational defensiveness is a RED FLAG to patients.

Likewise, another red flag is doctors that demand patients sign a paper that they won't discuss the doctor on the internet or with friends/family. What horrible things is such a doctor doing to patients that he must resort to such extreme suppressive control tactics?

Do not sign away your right to free speech, if that's even legally possible. A good sound doctor is one who advocates patient rights, and who has nothing to hide.

Additionally, some doctors demand patients sign a paper that they won't sue the doctor, or that a panel of doctors (versus a judge/jury of your peers) will determine if the lawsuit was frivolous.

This is a red flag. Coercing patients out of their right to due process (if that's legally possible) is a red flag. What terrible things is such a doctor doing to patients that he must get patients to sign such an onerous document? A good doctor puts his patient's best interest first, not his own. A good doctor has nothing to hide.

Such doctors don't comprehend that they are drawing attention to their negligence and causing themself more harm with over the top tactics.

Evidently, the assertion that there's an epidemic of "frivolous" medical malpractice lawsuits is a fallacy.

I agree with 'Reality' on her comments.

"A doctor who goes to irrational lengths to suppress information about themselves IS questionable". My doctors (Herbert Nevyas & Anita Nevyas-Wallace - listed) went to great lengths to try to suppress the information I posted about them, even though the documents also posted supports every allegation I made about them (www.lasikdecision.com). They're still suing me! Thing is, the facts don't lie...

I also posted information on my sites regarding several doctors in the refractive industry because like Boothe, there are a lot of unscrupulous things the general public doesn't know. A doctor with over 60 lawsuits (and counting), and another had over 40 before he died. Just some of the things most people won't check out, or even hear of, but should.

And if anyone is ever in the same position as I, DO NOT sign away your right to free speech! It IS legally possible.

For all of the other comments he/she made, There is truth in 'Reality'!

When signing those agreements, if you feel you must to get the physician to treat you, sign your name and append, in the same longhand strokes connected to the last letter of your last name, the letters "ud", so e.g. if John Smith signs the form he signs as "John Smithud" -- because signatures often have common flourishes to them, nobody is likely to notice, but if later on there is litigation, you can point out to your lawyer and to the court that the "ud" at the end of your signature was done because at the time you felt you were signing "under duress". You then have a good chance of having the 'agreement' thrown out or used as evidence in your favor.