In this age, everybody is conducting surveys to determine how effective their goods and services are being commercialized to the public. As such the medical field is no different.
With the majority of doctors being forced under larger umbrellas of medical facilities, such as the hospitals they work out of, their surveys are as you would think important feed back on how effective these medical professionals are in dealing with patients.
However, instead of these snapshots of a patient’s personal experience, they are being used in quite a different way. If you have experience a problem with a particular doctor or facility, and reported it honestly it is being given directly to those with whom you experienced the problem.
As such, said facility or physician is now utilizing such surveys to punish the patients who have answered honestly on the survey, not knowing it went directly back to those with whom you have had the issue with.
Those facilities and physicians then punish those survey takers in a number of ways from not giving the patient the medications they need. To changing medication dosages, without warning.
They also treat the patients in an abusive manner. Going so far as to remove the patients from the practice altogether sighting the patient was a problem due to not making appointments or being late to appointments.
This even occurs in cases where patients have been in the practice for many years. Generally, it occurs when the doctor first joins the umbrella organization. They are forced to punish anyone who gives them a bad review, with these surveys not being anonymous.
Conclusion: Due to pressure to have good records the physicians are forced to treat anyone who doesn’t give glowing reports on these surveys as a problem. As such you must understand, if you take these surveys, they will impact you’re future treatment.