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What is the point of RateMDs website if they are influenced and bullied by bad doctors/professionals who have the power to ask them to block off a consumer if they give a truthful but negative experience in their clinic.

What is the point if a consumer cannot get an accurate review of any professional especially a doctor or an optician, before making appointments?!

I have reached out to the company twice, with this same explanation and have received no response. This website places a healthcare providers name, APRN, PA, MD to their site based off our NPI numbers for the public to review. The goal I think is to enhance providers business, as they can ask patients to leave a review in their office. However, I do not work in a clinic in New Haven I work in the emergency department. This is clearly an emotional attack on me by a patient. Regardless the patient commented that I did not follow up, in emergency medicine we do not, we refer to primary care. She stated she was alone in the room however unfortunately during covid 19 there is a zero visitor rule. She stated do not see this doctor, I am not a doctor. Her friend also posted a negative comments about me who was not even present to witness the interaction. I believe this goes against the rules of the review and should have never been posted if so diligently reviewed by your company. You need to consider the type of providers you are exploiting on your site. I am not in private practice or trying to ramp up my patient population. In the ED I cannot choose which patients I see, they cannot choose the provider either. We are subjected to patients with an array of psychiatric diagnosis', drug seeking behaviors and you are giving them the ability to write whatever they want and that is just unfair. Most like the patient who said you should run far away is because I did not write her for narcotics and perhaps the attending did simply to get her out of the department. You do not have a good understanding of how the emergency department is set up. For private practice I could see why these reviews would be beneficial both for patients and providers. I have read other similar complaints from emergency medicine providers as well. Do you realize if I try to work in private practice one day how this will impact me as it is not differentiated the setting of this review? These websites recommend we reply to our reviews. I will not as my institution highly advises we do not directly respond to patient complaints.
I would really like my name removed from this site to prevent this in the future as I stated I am subject to a very vulnerable population but if you will not remove my name I ask that you remove these disgraceful, emotional, reviews that are not a true reflection of the environment I work in.

Ratemds blocked my honest 1 star review. I chose a surgeon because I read great reviews on that site.
I have rhinoplasty surgery with him and he botched my nose completely . Cutting off half of my septum. I now need rib that will cost more than 20, 000 to repair to somewhat normalcy.
So I try to tell my story and my review never posted!
I couldn't believe it. I'm disgusted, and enraged with this site because I feel they totally mislead me into the hands of this surgeon.
Now I sit here and think with my botched face how many reviews that had been blocked were never posted that could have save my life.
I literally have no life now, it's not even worth living at the moment because how badly botched my nose is..

Ratemds is a total scam artist site and they protect the surgeons! Please don't take anything you read from there and make any decisions.
I never thought the world could be this cold!

I recently tried to post the review on the website www.ratemds.com. The website is real scam, ‘coz they deleted all my comments and reviews. I tried to reach these moderators and asked about it, but all my complaints were returned back and no idea how to reach them. They are liars and scammers, so be careful and better avoid them. As well as post comments about your experience with them.

RateMDs.com claims they give patients the ability to express their honest opinions about their medical providers. This is true in my personal experience with them up to this point.

BUT at their forums you can express anything but your honest opinion. They are controlled by a group of female permanent users or "professional" users, as I write this review, that have anointed themselves as helpless victims of the vagaries of life so it is ok for them to verbally abuse someone outside their circle at RateMds, but if you respond in kind even a little then it would be like hitting an old lady after she smashes into the rear of your car in their eyes and apparently in RateMDs.com founder, John Swapceinski, as well because he enables them.

If you state an opinion not in line with their group think then your opinion will be negated by a "professional" user. If you persist in maintaining your view then several "professional" users will attempt to change your mind. If that doesn't work then you will be ridiculed, insulted, have statements you made taken out of context, your posts will be purposely interpreted as being hostile, you will be labeled a troll, and thrown off the site by RateMDs.com founder, John Swapceinski, or a "professional" user that he gave administrator privileges to.

RateMDs.com needs to come clean in this area if it wants to be recognized as a trusted site by ALL of its users.