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Choosing Your Doctor....Tips-Part One

Doctors come in all levels of skills, quality of training, and commitment to their job. To exemplify this point let me tell you a story. When I was working for the Agency for Health Care Administration, I heard the chairman of the Florida Board of Medicine say to a group of people:

"10% of the doctors are good and actually help their patients. 10% of the doctors are not good and are dangerous. The remaining 80% of the doctors will neither help nor hurt you.

How can you be sure your doctor is a good doctor who is in the 10% who actually help their patients?

Here is Tip #1:  You can go to the Florida Department of Health Website under the licensed professionals section.  Here you will find lots of information about your doctor. You can learn where he or she went to medical school, where they completed residency training, whether he or she is board certified and whether they have had disciplinary action taken against his or her medical license.

After this go to your circuit court clerk's website. Do a case search for your doctor. Has he been sued? If so get a copy of the complaint in the civil case. This will tell you much about what it is alleged that the doctor did wrong. What happened to the case? Was it settled? Was the case tried before a jury? What was the verdict?  

This is just a beginning.  More to come about the best ways to go about selecting your doctor.