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Originally Posted by Vintage VFer
Sometimes I need to find a new medical professional and, along with asking friends, I like to read other reviews.
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for medical, i first check if they're in my network. then i did a general Google search to see where their offices were located, and in the Google results, there was a separate review site for physicians called "healthgrades.com" that included detailed reviews that popped up. i found them to be pretty frank. there's another review site called vitals.com, also very frank. i went in with a healthy skepticism.
i think i checked yelp a bit, but healthgrades.com was a lot more revealing to me. i also selected this one physician because she's part of a group of several other physicians in her field - ob-gyn. if she was out of the office, i wanted to have a couple more back-up physicians who cover for each other. or if she didn't work out, i could go to one of her colleagues.
i felt comfortable relying on Yelp for repair services and installation services for appliances. again, i took it with a grain of salt if it was super negative.
as far as referrals - i rely heavily on my friend's and co-worker's suggestions for repairmen and home construction.
with Amazon, i mentally graph the reviews on a curve, looking first at the negative reviews. i skim them and look for the ones that are well written. i try to see how the average star rating resulted, especially if there are only a few reviews.