Comparing Doctors Can be Daunting, Poll Says

The Boston Globe- Quotes Elliott Fisher on a new poll that determined Americans don't know how to determine whether a doctor will provide high-quality care. "[S]ome of the nicest doctors are the least competent," he says. Fisher is director of The Dartmouth Institute for Health Policy and Clinical Practice and the James W. Squire Professor of Medicine and Community and Family Medicine at the Geisel School of Medicine. Read more...