If you are a physician, you have no doubt seen various websites such as Doximity, Healthgrades, and WebMD make a profile of you.
That information may or may not be accurate, and most of the time those profiles are pretty much worthless as they often contain inaccurate information.
Sometimes there are reviews, which sometimes have text in them, but by and large they are not very useful.
What is more useful are google reviews. People are used to looking at google reviews for almost everything else, and they are usually helpful. As expected with any industry, physicians and healthcare systems have caught on and are now padding their reviews.
But forget that for a moment. If you are a physician, make sure that you get ownership of your google profile that will follow you around!
If you are a physician, make sure that you get ownership of your google profile that will follow you around! Click To Tweet
A lot of healthcare systems have been taking control of docs google profiles, and then won’t give them up when a doc changes jobs! You can tell its a hospital controlled google profile when the owner comments to the reviews are something like:
“Thank you for taking the time to share your experience with us!”
Don’t Settle for Boring Health Resources
"Why should I become a member of SoMeDocs if I already have my own space online?"
It can be incredibly difficult to get control of that account once the hospital has it, because google will send a mailer to their address to confirm change of ownership! You need to beat them to it, or wrest it from them while you are still employed.
Your future self will thank you for doing it!
