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TX doctors slam quality ratings system
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I have only seen and used the Physician rating system where the PATIENT rates a Physician or Medical Group or both. Luckily, I have an excellent PCP, am disabled and go to a Medical Group that accepts all insurance plans and patients on Medicare Plans, both Advantage and straight Medicare Plans.
It sounds like the Physicians don't like to hear the truth about the quality or lack thereof of the care they offer. I have had problems with my Insurance Provider, but together, we have worked to resolve the problem or problems that have arosen over the years due to me being disabled, suffering from chronic pain syndromes, most doctors seem to never have heard of. The worst are the Emergency Department Physicans as they seem to be on the bottom run of the education ladder when it comes to some of the chronic pain syndromes and as I leave, will hand me a pre-printed sheet on chronic pain, not even the pain condition I suffer from. It's very frustrating as a patient to work with doctors who undermedicate our pain, refuse to call our Pain Management Physicians to find adequate doses to treat our flare ups, and then treat us like drug addicts.





