How Do You Know If Your Doctor Is Any Good

A discussion of the characteristics that patients can use to differentiate good doctors so good ones. To address a couple of questions that might come up after watching this: 1. Probably the greatest and most reliable way to know if your doctor is good is if he, she is someone to whom other doctors and health care professionals refer their own family members. I don t mention that in the video because most people don t have a close personal contact in a health profession from whom they can ask this advice. 2. Regarding my assertion that the prestige of med school and training program is not predictive of the quality of routine care of patients, that s largely based on my personal experience (and the experience of family members and friends who have told me about their experiences with various doctors of different training pedigrees). I should have pointed out in the video that there may be a threshold effect whereby it doesn t matter until one reaches the schools that are particularly poorl