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I have seen this website, and checked about several doctors in my current location, and in another city to check if there were any comments

and I realize that there can be some problems with comments that are not authentic

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/13032007/3/canada-doctor-rating-website-stirs-physicians.html

(I didn't make any comments, but I sure felt like making some about one doctor who ordered me, as a patient, to deliver another patient's lab specimen to a downtown lab office (quite some distance from the doctor's office) - when I wasn't even going there, and she had no right expecting me to do this service, and she had no right handing someone else's lab specimen to me for this purpose)

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Specializes in ICU, telemetry, LTAC.

I like this website, regardless of the potential for abuse. I'm glad it exists.

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Specializes in Rehab, LTC, Peds, Hospice.
I have seen this website, and checked about several doctors in my current location, and in another city to check if there were any comments

and I realize that there can be some problems with comments that are not authentic

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/13032007/3/canada-doctor-rating-website-stirs-physicians.html

(I didn't make any comments, but I sure felt like making some about one doctor who ordered me, as a patient, to deliver another patient's lab specimen to a downtown lab office (quite some distance from the doctor's office) - when I wasn't even going there, and she had no right expecting me to do this service, and she had no right handing someone else's lab specimen to me for this purpose)

Do you work at that office or in some other capacity?

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Specializes in Pediatric Pulmonology and Allergy.
Of the 19 postings about Harrigan on the website, eight are negative, complaining she made them feel rushed or she lacks compassion.

Although the other postings are full of praise, Harrigan said the resulting overall rating of "average" is devastating.

"The terrible insecurity I feel with having that out there when it's not true, and I have no way to defend myself," said Harrigan. "So to me it's an example of how terrible the internet can be, and how damaging."

This doctor sounds oversensitive to me. If she's confident in her skills and abilities, why should she be "devastated" that out of all her former patients, eight left negative ratings on a website? And her overall rating is "average"--boo hoo. It's also well-known that people who are dissatisfied are far more likely to comment than those who were satisfied.

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Do you work at that office or in some other capacity?

no, I did not work at that office

as I mentioned, I was a patient.

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Specializes in Rehab, LTC, Peds, Hospice.

Sorry, what I meant was why did the doctor treat you as an employee? How did he/she know you were a nurse? I did see that you were a patient at the time. Or does this Dr. make a habit of asking all his patients to drop off specimens?

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I have no idea why she (this doctor) behaved this way

except that maybe she's in the habit of ordering nurses

and maybe it was her own "transference"

and inability to realize that I, as a patient, am not

responsible to be her delivery person

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