Guide to Top Doctors

Guide to the highest rated doctors in the United States. Includes physicians in America's 50 largest metropolitan areas - more than 15,000 in all - in 30 specialties. These are the doctors other doctors recommend, based on a survey of more than 250,000 doctors.

Author and publisher is the Center for the Study of Services, a nonprofit consumer organization founded in 1974. The Center has also authored and published the Consumers' Guide to Hospitals, the Consumers' Guide to Health Plans, and Checkbook's Guide to Health Insurance Plans for Federal Employees. Researchers for the Center currently serve (on in the recent past have served) on the National Advisory Council of the U.S. Agency for Health Care Policy and Research; several panels of the Institute of Medicine/National Academy of Sciences; the Committee of Performance Measurement of the National Committee for Quality Assurance; the Technology Assessment Audit Committee of the Emergency Care Research Institute; the board of directors of the Consumer Federation of America; and the board of directors of Consumers Union, publisher of Consumer Reports magazine.