{"id":1567,"date":"2011-12-06T14:47:36","date_gmt":"2011-12-06T14:47:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dr-downey.com\/?p=1567"},"modified":"2012-01-03T02:07:39","modified_gmt":"2012-01-03T02:07:39","slug":"selected-2011-patients-choice-physician-vitals-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dr-downey.com\/?p=1567","title":{"rendered":"Selected as a 2011 Patients&#8217; Choice physician on Vitals.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The letter to me Friday read:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border: 0px initial initial;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dr-downey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/Vitals-logo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"92\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/www.dr-downey.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/patients-choice.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"153\" height=\"108\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Dear Dr. Downey:<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations! You have once <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">again<\/span> been recognized as a\u00a0<strong>Patients&#8217; Choice<\/strong> physician.<\/p>\n<p>The Patients&#8217; Choice honor is given to you as a reflection of your patients&#8217; continued appreciation and praise for the quality of care and service you provide.<\/p>\n<p>Every month, more than 200,000 patients across the U.S. provide online feedback about their doctor experiences. They rate various components of the care they receive, such as bedside manner, doctor-patient face time, follow-up care, ease of appointment setting, and courtesy of office staff. They also share their overall opinions.<\/p>\n<p>Over the course of 2011, hundreds of thousands of patient reviews were written and shared. While physicians generally receive positive feedback from their patients, only a select few consistently receive rave reviews. Of those with high praise, only physicians like yourself &#8211; with near perfect scores &#8211; have been voted by their patients for this honor.<\/p>\n<p><strong>In fact, of the nation&#8217;s 720,000 active physicians, only 5 percent were accorded this honor by their patients in 2011.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>You are, indeed, the\u00a0<strong>Patients&#8217; Choice<\/strong>; a physician so highly regarded by patients that they feel the need to talk to others about the positive influence of your work.<\/p>\n<p>______________________________________<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Vitals.com, like Avvo.com, has a patient-driven rating system whose data is reviewed. A physician hungry for hits cannot simply write a check to jack his ratings.\u00a0Many of these awards sites are cheesy with questionable methodologies. Vitals.com is not.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The letter to me Friday read: Dear Dr. Downey: Congratulations! You have once again been recognized as a\u00a0Patients&#8217; Choice physician. The Patients&#8217; Choice honor is given to you as a reflection of your patients&#8217; continued appreciation and praise for the quality of care and service you provide. Every month, more than 200,000 patients across the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr-downey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr-downey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr-downey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr-downey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr-downey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1567"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/dr-downey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1569,"href":"https:\/\/dr-downey.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1567\/revisions\/1569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dr-downey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr-downey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dr-downey.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}