{"id":2293,"date":"2017-03-17T06:00:14","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T10:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.inboundmd.com\/?p=2293"},"modified":"2017-03-17T06:00:14","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T10:00:14","slug":"ratemds-reviews-doctors-profile","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inboundmd.com\/ratemds-reviews-doctors-profile\/","title":{"rendered":"How Would You Rate Your RateMDs Profile?"},"content":{"rendered":"

This RateMDs<\/a> post is the fourth\u00a0in our series on how to optimize your profile on different medical review sites<\/a> (you can read the posts for Vitals<\/a> and ZocDoc<\/a>). Of these three, RateMDs gives doctors the greatest ability to manage and respond to reviews.<\/p>\n

But this is a double-edged sword. RateMDs also gives patients great power to post what and when they want. In fact, RateMDs allows for anonymous reviews. Reviewers don’t even have to create an account on the site.<\/p>\n

Let’s add this to the fact that RateMDs, like many other review sites, creates profiles from publicly and commercially available information. So you probably have a profile on the site that you didn’t create. Go on \u2013 go check.<\/p>\n

Remember that patient-power I mentioned earlier? Well, on RateMDs, anyone can create your profile and provide a review. That’s right. If someone wants to review you and for some reason you don’t already have a profile on RateMDs, they can create it for you.<\/p>\n

Now, they’re not going to create a complete, engaging profile for you. They’ll put up the bare minimum required and then provide their rating and review.<\/p>\n

Making the Most of RateMDs Review System<\/h2>\n

RateMDs lets people rate you on four areas: staff, punctuality, helpfulness, and knowledge. It then creates a single overall review rating, also using the 5-star system, based on them. The separate review ratings, each category and overall, are also aggregated to create five profile level ratings for you.<\/p>\n

The site is loath to remove any review or rating, and it won’t do it just because you don\u2019t like one. You can flag a review that you think is problematic and tell RateMDs why you think it should be removed and RateMDs will take a look at it. But they really aren’t going to remove one just because it’s a bad review. If they do decide to keep a review up after you’ve flagged it, they’ll remove the flag so you can’t appeal their decision.<\/p>\n

What you can do is reply to the review on site. The question is should you? Here are some quick tips on whether and how to reply to bad review:<\/p>\n