Help, I need a GoodDoctor
How mad is this? I just moved and need to register with a doctor, and NONE of my neighbours are proving to be any use at giving me a recommendation (telling me about the child-care doesn’t really have any relevance to my life!).Last year I bought a new webcam for my mum’s birthday. She’s wasn’t going to get a 3G phone anytime soon, and an odd quick webcam MSN chat really made her day (am I a good son or what!). So I spent a couple of hours on a Sunday afternoon looking a various reviews. I read some PCPro reviews, I think I read a ZDnet review… Then of course there are the lists of user reviews on Amazon and the likes. Marvellous: once I was suitable informed, I was able to make a good decision – and get the perfect present.
Now back to choose a new doctor. Do you know how I chose my current doctor? I found a list of doctors and chose the nearest one. The thing is, in my catchment area, there are two GP surgeries that are really close by. How am I to know which is better? Come to that, each surgery has different doctors; how can I know which to go to?
Isn’t it mad, that I can make a better-informed decision about a stupid webcam, than I can about my doctor. I mean, come on, which is more important, a webcam gadget, or my health? Yet, the information is all about the trivial one!
And this my friends, is where www.gooddoctor.co.uk will make a difference. It’s just been launched, and is trying to convince every web surfer to write a review of their doctors/surgeons/chiropractor etc…. Once the reviews are in – people like you and me will finally be able to make informed decisions about the most important things in our lives….. and about bloody time too! I just hope enough reviews get written before I need anything important done to me!
This seems like such a good idea – especially since the government backed down over a similar scheme recently! No excuses – go there now (it needs you to work)!
Surely everyone’s been to a doctor or dentist in the past year or so?
Link: www.gooddoctor.co.uk
