Consumers' Guide to Top Doctors - Doctor Ratings and Advice - Softcover

Editors Of Consumers' Checkbook Magazine

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1888124210 ISBN 13: 9781888124217

Publisher: Center for the Study of Services, 2009

Synopsis

Find doctor ratings that will lead you to those who will be best for your health. Some doctors are much better rated than others. A New York State study of heart bypass surgery death rates revealed that some doctors who did large numbers of these surgeries had more than three times the death rates other doctors had. Other studies have made similar findings. Doctor-to-doctor quality differences mean that choosing the wrong doctor might expose you to surgery, powerful drugs, or other treatments that will do you no good, might do you lasting harm, and will certainly contribute to discomfort and inconvenience. By choosing the wrong doctor, you might also miss out on a treatment that could cure a disease or repair an injury, or you might get the treatment you need but have it performed so badly that it does you no good. In short, choice of the wrong doctor can result in needless suffering, or even death. In this book, you get the doctor ratings you need to choose the right doctors. The book is a special publication of Consumers' CHECKBOOK, a nonprofit research organization widely respected for over 30 years for producing consumer-oriented evaluations and ratings of doctors, ratings of hospitals, ratings of health plans, and ratings of other health care providers. This book has help you need.

About this title

About the Author

This book is a publication of Consumers' CHECKBOOK, which is a program of the Center for the Study of Services, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping consumers find high-quality, reasonably priced service providers and retailers. Founded in 1974, CHECKBOOK is supported by sales of its publications and other research and information products and services, in print and online, and by tax-deductible donations from consumers. None of CHECKBOOK's publications or websites accept any advertising. Consumers' CHECKBOOK magazines, published by the Center in the Boston, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Seattle, Twin Cities, and Washington, DC, metropolitan areas, rate the quality and prices of local service firms of various kinds, ranging from auto repair shops to banks to hospitals. CHECKBOOK also does survey, research, and analysis activities under contract with government agencies, employer coalitions, nonprofit public sector organizations, and health plans.

Edition details

• Publisher: Center for the Study of Services
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1888124210
• ISBN 13: 9781888124217
• Binding: Perfect Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 512