The Surgeon Who Appeared in Traffic Court by Zoom During Surgery. Hear the Real Story. From HIM.

Share this article by copying this link: https://medicaljustice.com/dr-scott-green-surgeon-traffic-court-real-story/ You can also share by clicking one of the social media icons on the top left of your screen. Dr. Scott Green is a talented plastic surgeon trapped in a 21st-century media storm. Dr. Green received a traffic ticket. Because of COVID restrictions, he appeared in traffic court via Zoom after successfully completing … Read more

Young male nurse using phone outside while drinking coffee

How Social Media Can Help A Doc’s Rep

While it’s true, of course, that revealing a patient’s personal information is a violation of privacy laws, that does not mean that a physician cannot safely provide generalized information via online sources. One recent article pointed out that many doctors go online these days. Some have interactions with their patients that way. One doctor corresponds with patients and others via Facebook. When asked about the chances of a fetus becoming infected by swimming in public pools, the doctor recognized that the question was general enough, and asked often enough, to justify a GENERALIZED answer. Without getting into that particular patient’s situation, he answered about the risk in a generalized sense.

Read more

Doctors Who Purchase Fake Online Reviews from Bangladesh

visit our booking page to schedule a consultation – or use the tool shared below. This week we have a guest post from Kathryn Dean. She is the creator of FakeReviewWatch.com and its eponymous YouTube channel. She’s exposed a large international marketplace for purchasing and posting fake reviews and a domestic marketplace for trading reviews … Read more

Can Doctors Be Fined for Buying Online Reviews?

So – is it against the law to pay patients for online reviews? The short answer… Yes. The more nuanced longer version… Giving anything of value for reviews without disclosing the gift can be considered false and deceptive advertising by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC). It does not matter if it is $1, an Amazon … Read more

Dental Practice Fined $10k for Improperly Responding to Online Reviews

Elite Dental Associates, a Dallas dental practice, just wrote a check for $10,000 to the Office of Civil Rights (OCR) for Dept. Health and Human Services. The reason. A HIPAA violation. What “egregious” act did the practice commit? Responding to negative reviews on Yelp. OCR’s investigation found that the dental practice had impermissibly disclosed the … Read more

5 More Golden Rules Doctors Should Follow When Responding to Patient Reviews

In February, we published two articles related to patient reviews. One piece was published online. The second was made available for download. Both remain available, and we encourage our readers to study them. Considering the overwhelmingly positive reception both pieces received, we decided to return to the topic and discuss five more golden rules physicians should follow when responding … Read more

Online Reputation Management for Doctors: A Prescription for Success Online and Off

In the past, reputation management meant doing your job well and avoiding controversies. Take care of your patients. Participate in your community. Don’t kick puppies. Then the internet emerged, and the public received the power to praise and condemn doctors online anonymously. Many doctors perceive the online world as a two-edged blade. Case in point: … Read more

The Slippery Descent of Someone with Little Grip on Reality

Michael Arnstein ran a gemstone and jewelry business in Manhattan. He was irked by a number of negative online reviews. So, what did he do? He fired up Photoshop. Between 2014 and 2017, Arnstein forged over ten court orders that he submitted to Google to de-index pages with unsavory comments of his business.  He actually succeeded early on with what was a bona fide court … Read more

Cyber-stalker Criminally Indicted for Defaming Physician 

.        In Texas, there’s a law – Section 33.07(a)(2) which makes it a felony to use the name or persona of another person to create a web page or post on a social networking site if the action is taken to harm, threaten, defraud or intimidate the other person.   A patient in Austin posted the … Read more

Latest Posts from Our Blog