Best Doctors in
Virginia A
third party rates Virginia’s “best doctors.”
You be the judge.
The
following four pages represent Virginia physicians who
have been named to the Best Doctors in America®
list. The list is taken from a national database of
more than 30,000 physicians in more than 40 specialties.
For this issue, we chose five specialties that might
be of interest to our readers.
Best
Doctors in Virginia
Best
Doctors is an independent company that employs a combination
of high technology polling and person-to-person telephone
interviews in which doctors are asked to rate the clinical
skills of their peers.
Nominees
are added to a voting pool for consideration by other
doctors within the same specialty of medicine or the
same geographic area. Proprietary software enables Best
Doctors to fax customized ballots to each of the doctors
in the voting pool. Ballots change daily as responses
are returned and recorded. The entire process is supplemented
with in-depth telephone interviews that allow poll takers
to ask probing questions about a physician's practice
and allows the doctors to comment more candidly.
All
voting is strictly confidential and doctors are not
notified of their inclusion on the list until after
the survey process is complete. Unlike other “best”
lists, doctors cannot pay to be listed.
Surveys
of the medical profession are complex and time-consuming,
often being done by part-time stringers working on a
fixed budget and tight schedule. Best Doctors’
staff works year-round, at a cost of more than $1 million
annually, surveying and interviewing thousands of physicians
to develop and refine the list. The following list is
not based on outcome studies or mortality rates, which
normally do not take into account the severity of the
cases. The best doctors often handle the most difficult
and life-threatening cases that other doctors have refused
to treat or have treated without success.
We
hope you find the following information informative
and useful. If you have a comment or question, feel
free to contact the publisher at dforshey@va-business.com.
