There's an interesting story in the Wall Street Journal about the "growing number of legal battles being waged over Internet postings about medical complaints."
As the story explains, "More patients are taking their opinions of their local doctors to the Internet, and a wider audience, and that has some medical providers on edge. Several Web sites have sprung up that encourage patients to post anonymous reviews of doctors and dentists, and some frustrated patients have created entire Web sites to criticize specific physicians."
Some health care professionals are countering with lawsuits claiming libel and other things. It's an interesting story of First Amendment issues and of medical consumerism.
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