Why Rating Your Doctor Is Bad For Your Health

Asking patients to grade their doctors sounds like a great idea. But it's actually perverting the practice of medicine, encouraging doctors to overprescribe and overtreat, driving up costs and sometimes worsening care.

Asking patients to grade their doctors sounds like a great idea. But it's actually perverting the practice of medicine, encouraging doctors to overprescribe and overtreat, driving up costs and sometimes worsening care.