Docs seek to stifle patients’ rants on Web sites

But ‘medical gag order’ contracts may backfire with bad publicity

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“Some docs, worried about their reputations, are trying to fight back against negative reviews, requiring patients to sign contracts — critics call them “gag orders” — promising not to post comments to public sites. Others ask patients to sign over copyright to future comments, hoping for leverage to have any nasty tags removed.”

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Soon, Angie’s List, the behemoth of online review sites, will begin posting alerts that highlight doctors who ask for what founder Angie Hicks calls “medical gag orders.”

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