[HSF] "Guide to America's Top Surgeons"????-OT

[Michael Firstenberg]

Is that not what the US News and World Report ranking are?
    ..... and people lives, breath (ventilate?), and die by those.


michael


On 2/13/07, rwmfglycar at aol.com <rwmfglycar at aol.com> wrote:
>
> Many years ago there was a small little hospital in a rundown part of the
> Bronx. All the doctors in NY had been sent a flyer asking them to nominate
> doctors for a directory of the "Best Doctors of New York"  This was
> supposedly going to be a transparently democratically derived opinion of the
> doctors of New York. Who better than another doctor to give you the name of
> the best doctor (apart from himself) in his field?  A trio of doctors in
> this hospital went around to all the other doctors in their hospital and
> asked for their votes. In the directory that was eventually on sale this
> little hospital was distinguished by having THREE of the best doctors in NY
> in their specialty!
> Bob
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: battr at medizin.uni-leipzig.de
> To: OpenHeart-L at lists.hsforum.com
> Sent: Tue, 13 Feb 2007 1:35 AM
> Subject: AW: [HSF] "Guide to America's Top Surgeons"????-OT
>
>
> This who is who people asked me 900 dollars. I preferred to go in
> vacations.
> Roberto
>
> -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht-----
> Von: openheart-l-bounces at lists.hsforum.com
> [mailto:openheart-l-bounces at lists.hsforum.com] Im Auftrag von Edward
> Bender
> Gesendet: Dienstag, 13. Februar 2007 00:48
> An: OpenHeart-L at lists.hsforum.com
> Betreff: Re: [HSF] "Guide to America's Top Surgeons"????
>
> Sorry, Michael.  I got the same thing, so it can't be all that much
> of an honor.  It is very similar to the money making schemes at
> "Who's Who."  They go through this extended phone interview, and, at
> the end, you are asked to buy your entry into the publication.  You
> are also able to buy representations of you entry in the form of
> plaques, etc.  Its a pretty good way to make money for the publishers
> by stoking the egomaniacal flames of competitive over-achievers.
> Moms and Dads would love it though.
>
> Ed Bender, MD
>
>
> On Feb 12, 2007, at 5:40 PM, Michael Firstenberg wrote:
>
> > Got something from the Consumer's Research Council congratulating
> > me about
> > this.
> >
> > Does anyone know anything about it?
> > They dont want any money except if I want to buy a plaque
> > They claim to be "an independent research co in Wash DC"
> >
> >
> >
> > I hardly consider myself a top surgeon - but hey, my Mother
> > probably thinks
> > so.
> >
> > www.consumersresearchcncl.org
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > -michael
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