[Tommy]

Anthony,
I appreciate the thoughtful response and the suggested sources of information. Unfortunately for me, when I tried to check up on my family physician, healthgrades wanted $12.95 to see what they had to say and vitals.com had only one review. In the past I also tried angieslist and found it does not cover my rural community. That, in a nutshell, is the problem with voluntary and customer review based systems.

I understand that doctors who are paid on a fee for service basis need to see as many patients per hour as possible to maximize their incomes, and I have no more concern about doctors wanting to maximize their incomes than I do about mechanics wanting to maximize theirs. I just want them to make it easy for those of us who are picking a doctor to know which of them care even a little for the amount of their customers' time they are wasting in order to afford that second or third condo on the beach.