Opinion
Turnabout is fair play when medicine meets anonymous online venting
LETTER — Posted Feb. 25, 2008
Regarding "Insurers' online forums invite patients to vent" (Article, Jan. 28): America is a heterogeneous society with many differing values of what is appropriate medical care and behavior.
If patients may use fake names to critique physicians, then let's balance the field and allow physicians using fake names to post critiques of patients. Among many other things, this would quickly make public persons abusing and exploiting physicians' good will and dedication in order to fraudulently obtain narcotics.
Earl J. Carstensen, MD, Aurora, Colo.
Note: This item originally appeared at http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2008/02/25/edlt0225.htm.