A relative who admitted they never met me wrote my worst review
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The reviewer opened by admitting, in their own words, that they were "writing this for" a relative and had "never personally met this doctor," then made sweeping claims about my judgment during a delivery.
The account was secondhand at best and left out everything I am not permitted to explain in public. Obstetrics is intensely personal, and prospective patients often choose based on exactly these reviews, so a dramatic post like this carries real weight.
The post remained the second thing a patient saw when they searched my name, and I watched my new obstetric intakes soften over the following quarter. I could not say with certainty how much of it traced back to that one review, which is its own kind of torment.
I consulted an attorney, hoping there was a clean way to respond, and she confirmed that any substantive reply risked disclosing protected health information. So I paid for a legal consultation only to be told, in effect, to stay silent.