How To Find The Best Surgeon
If you need to have surgery or know someone that needs surgery and you have time to do research, it's a good idea to try and find the best surgeon possible and not go with whatever surgeon your doctor randomly chooses from you. How do you find a good surgeon? Where do you start? This page serves as a starting point to help you answer these questions. A good surgeon can mean the difference between life and death or a lifetime of misery if you get a quack surgeon that botches your operation. You can even prepare for emergency situations by building a list of hospitals and surgeons to go to and ones to avoid. Give this list to your family or keep it with you.
American College of Surgeons: Looking for a qualified surgeon?
Here's a good article on how to find a qualified surgeon. Provides links to official web sites (non scammy) to help you narrow down your search and gives you many helpful tips and phone numbers. Visit: American College of Surgeons: Looking for a qualified surgeon?
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Quality Check allows you to view ratings for hospitals and other health care organizations. Visit: Search
Welcome to ABMS: Improving healthcare quality through board certification
American Board of Medical Specialties web site provides helpful tips, articles and provides a searchable database to help you check the credentials and board certification status. Registration required (free). Visit: Welcome to ABMS: Improving healthcare quality through board certification
American Board of Surgery
Use this search form to find an ABS certified surgeon near you. Visit: American Board of Surgery
HealthGrades - Research Hospitals, Doctors and Nursing Homes
HealthGrades is a site which provides reports and ratings to over 750,000 physicians. Some ratings can be viewed for free, others may require you to purchase a report. Visit: HealthGrades - Research Hospitals, Doctors and Nursing Homes
RateMDs.com | Free doctor ratings and reviews
RateMDs.com is a simple doctor rating/review site in which patients can rate doctors and surgeons. Physicians are rated based on punctuality, helpfulness, knowledge and overall quality. You can view each doctor to read detailed reviews. Visit: RateMDs.com | Free doctor ratings and reviews
Google Maps
A really quick and easy way to view how surgeons are rated is to do a local search for them on Google Maps. View the surgeon and you may see reviews under the surgeons name. Visit: Google Maps
A Boy Named Sue. By Shel Silverstein - Hello Poetry
Visit: A Boy Named Sue. By Shel Silverstein - Hello Poetry