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Hospitals Suing Patients For Online Comments

More doctors and hospitals are suing patients for negative comments the patients put online. Last week, a patient in Cleveland agreed to pay $100 to settle what were once felony charges for emailing his former Cleveland Clinic surgeon articles the doctor found threatening and posting a list on Yelp of all the surgeries the urologist had scheduled at the same time as the one that left the patient incontinent and impotent a decade ago. That ended a lengthy legal battle between the hospital and the patient, David Antoon. His case is part of a growing trend in which the medical community aggressively fights negative social media posts, including cases in Ohio, Arizona and Michigan. Ref. USAToday.

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We live in difficult times where a trend can destroy a lifetime of work just because someone tweeted it, posted it or blogged it so this is expected as companies try to protect their investments.

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But the thing is these kinds of reviews are sort of important. Especially if this is a frequent occurrence. People should know the record of the doctors they are expecting a certain service from.