I often answer the phones at DrGreene.com and I regularly get calls asking for advice finding a great doctor in the callers area. I don’t personally know many great doctors in areas outside my own so I routinely recommend asking local nurses as a resource. Nurses are a very important part of the healthcare team — just one part, but an important one.

Hope that helps to clarify.

Cheryl

Did you just write that? So, :”Nurses” have much better smarts than the average person. Wow that’s pretty sad. You are offensive on so many levels here. F.Y.I. you don’t need to be in the healthcare field to be a good judge of how you are being treating and the quality or lack thereof by a physician. What an absoltely ridiculous and prejudice statement that is. .

Thank goodness people are understanding that Doctor’s are not almighty God.. Doctor’s like any other profession have to be responsible and provide the patient with excellent quality of care. As for bedside manner.. If a physician has no bedsidemanner then it sends a loud message to the patient that :”I’m just not that into this” For me personally. they have to have both a very approachable attitude and excellent crudentials. If they don’t have both, I look elsewhere. The Doctor works for you and if you are not satisfied then you move on. P.S. if a Doctor has poor personal skills then they should probably re-think their career choice considering they will be handling and be responsible for human life. smh laters

To refine this further, the nurse that heads up QI in a hospital is the first person I’d go to to ask for a personal recommendation about a doctor’s quality and demeanor.

There is a possible dark side…competent physicians with a poor personal skills could become the target of bashers.