tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30499448.post5661760003688751276..comments2024-02-18T13:53:30.168-08:00Comments on Surgeonsblog: On My HonorSid Schwabhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14182853083503404098noreply@blogger.comBlogger10125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30499448.post-18321466854939283162012-06-23T07:44:46.472-07:002012-06-23T07:44:46.472-07:00The organization hawking these physician awards al...The organization hawking these physician awards also goes in for other professions such as lawyers and financial planners. <b>Here's a link to a choice article:</b><br /><br />http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-505123_162-37740326/my-dog-americas-top-financial-planner/?tag=mwuserAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30499448.post-48676597385601762762009-08-03T10:40:47.837-07:002009-08-03T10:40:47.837-07:00What is depressingly informative is that I first l...What is depressingly informative is that I first learned of this organization through a website of a Dr, who bragged of being on the listing.knitted_in_the_wombhttp://www.knittedinthewomb.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30499448.post-91320411982220735272008-11-25T10:36:00.000-08:002008-11-25T10:36:00.000-08:00Hey, if one of you "Best Surgeons in America" woul...Hey, if one of you "Best Surgeons in America" would like to have services provided by one of the "Best Pathologists in America" (I just got my honored notice today!), please let me know....<BR/><BR/>Thanks for posting the info about this scam on the web...<BR/><BR/>What shall those who are truly the "best in America" do for a living now?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30499448.post-59243573568344579662007-04-14T15:47:00.000-07:002007-04-14T15:47:00.000-07:00Well I am trying to find a top bile duct surgeon a...Well I am trying to find a top bile duct surgeon and cancer center in the San Francsico Bay Area, so I kept running into this service on the Internet. That's also how I found your website. But I'm still lost. How does one find the top surgeon, and fast? My dad needs help. We'll even travel to wherever the top surgeon is. Anyone can help? thank you!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30499448.post-59297046077332826142007-02-19T14:02:00.000-08:002007-02-19T14:02:00.000-08:00Good goggly moggly, this sort of scam survives in ...Good goggly moggly, this sort of scam survives in the doc world? Here I thought the publishing world only collected this sort of excrement. <BR/><BR/>I've been contacted by the same magazine no less than five times so that I could purchase a "lovely realistic plaque" for one of our authors who received a nice review for the paltry *coff* sum of $249.<BR/><BR/>Realistic plaque? Hmm...Lynn Pricehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02958402288888144904noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30499448.post-14288725625798720812007-02-18T22:04:00.000-08:002007-02-18T22:04:00.000-08:00Several of our ED physicians were joking around ab...Several of our ED physicians were joking around about all of them being "offered" the chance to be included in the "Best of..." artcle one of our local magazines puts together... For only $299, they could send in their bio to be included as one of the best physicians in our state...<BR/><BR/>I was suitable depressed when not one of the doctors from myhospital was chosen by that magazine as one of the best doctors in the state the next month... (tongue firmly planed in cheek for those slower on the sarcasm uptake...)Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30499448.post-57926624297231652342007-02-17T11:35:00.000-08:002007-02-17T11:35:00.000-08:00Hmm...works both ways, Sid.Hmm...works both ways, Sid.Greg Phttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18422487877167541900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30499448.post-17088322595596817492007-02-17T08:11:00.000-08:002007-02-17T08:11:00.000-08:00Uh, mad and greg: I think that was my point, yeah?...Uh, mad and greg: I think that was my point, yeah? Or is my writing that bad? "wink.... erection.... cynical" Were these words actually lost, or am I missing the tongues-in-cheek as I assumed you were missing mine?Sid Schwabhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14182853083503404098noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30499448.post-8893656526943255972007-02-17T07:18:00.000-08:002007-02-17T07:18:00.000-08:00Now Sid, here I was thinking you were more astute ...Now Sid, here I was thinking you were more astute than this.<BR/><BR/>These things are simply money-making enterprises. How much do you think it costs for them to generate these books? They probably print them in small batches as needed, as duped MDs "buy-in" to this concept.<BR/><BR/>Tsk, tsk.Greg Phttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18422487877167541900noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-30499448.post-84958880379624376762007-02-17T00:52:00.000-08:002007-02-17T00:52:00.000-08:00I wouldn't gloat too much about inclusion with thi...I wouldn't gloat too much about inclusion with this company. <BR/><BR/>I am a surgery resident. This past week I and all of the other residents received the same notification from this company that we were among America's top surgeons. They wanted us to spend several hundred dollars to buy a plaque honoring our inclusion. <BR/><BR/>We aren't even board eligible yet!!The Mad Hatterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03592692698936620651noreply@blogger.com