Real, de-identified accounts from healthcare providers across the country — page 7 of 10.
Share Your StoryA parent posted a long Facebook account of their child's dental treatment at my office and tore apart the care. The post named the specific procedure, the tooth involved, and the sedation approach we had discussed. It included a photo of…
A patient posted her own dental X-rays on our neighborhood app to argue that I had misdiagnosed her. The post included images, her description of the treatment plan I had proposed, and her account of our conversation. She invited neighbors…
A father left a Google review describing his son's tooth extraction at my office in vivid detail. He named the tooth, the anesthesia, the recovery, and his own version of the informed consent conversation. He wrote that he expected me to…
A patient recounted our entire consultation in a local subreddit and asked whether I had steered her wrong. She quoted the treatment plan, the fees, and the specific teeth I had flagged for work. She described her symptoms and her prior…
A patient published a detailed Facebook post about her oral surgery at my practice and called the outcome a disaster. She described the procedure, the healing timeline, and photographs of the surgical site. She recounted her version of the…
A grandfather left a Google review recounting his grandson's cavity treatment and demanded I answer publicly. He described the affected teeth, the fillings, and his own account of what I had told the family. He included the boy's first…
The review stated as plain fact that I performed a root canal on a tooth that was perfectly healthy, then billed her insurance for work she never needed. It was written with total certainty, as if reciting a receipt. She named the tooth…
A parent wrote a furious review about their adult child's appointment, admitting they were not present and had it secondhand. The account was wrong on key points, but I could not correct it without discussing the actual patient's care. It…
The review declared, as settled fact, that I cemented a crown so poorly it fell out within a week and then refused to refund a single dollar. It described a crooked margin, a bad bite, and a cold, dismissive front desk. The tone was that…
The post asserted, without a shred of hedging, that I extracted the wrong tooth and did it deliberately to bill for more work. It used the phrase intentional malpractice and claimed an oral surgeon had confirmed the error in writing. After…
The review stated flatly that I saw a raging infection, dismissed it, and sent her home, and that she later ended up hospitalized because of my negligence. It read like a medical timeline, complete with a date and a supposed emergency room…
The review asserted as fact that I drilled and filled several of a child's healthy baby teeth purely to inflate the bill. It framed me as a dentist who preys on parents who cannot judge dental work themselves. The language was clinical and…
The review declared that during a root canal I snapped an instrument, left the fragment inside the tooth, and then hid it from her. It described the piece of broken file in detail and claimed a specialist later fished it out. The whole…
One morning I opened Google to find dozens of one-star reviews that had landed within a few hours overnight. They traced back to a local Facebook group where someone had posted a heated, distorted story about my office. Many of the reviews…
A garbled version of an office policy got shared in a neighborhood group, and within two days my Facebook page had over a hundred one-star reviews. The vast majority came from people who had clearly never been patients, some posting from…
In my first year of practice, I woke to find my brand-new Google profile hit with a wave of one-star reviews overnight. The accounts were from cities across the country, places where I have never worked or lived. They had all descended…
After thirty years and a sterling reputation, I watched a rumor spread through a community group and trigger a flood of one-star reviews on RateMDs. Dozens arrived within a day, many from accounts with no reviewing history and some clearly…
Over a couple of weeks, a scattering of thin, vague one-star reviews appeared on my Google profile with no detail beyond a bad vibe. None named a procedure, a date, or anything that resembled an actual visit. Then a direct message arrived…
One person left escalating reviews that moved from a care complaint into personal, then threatening, language over several weeks. I could not respond without risking disclosure of who they likely were, so the reply box was closed to me by…
A cluster of contentless one-star complaints landed on my BBB profile, none describing an actual service or interaction. Shortly after, I received an email from an outfit offering to manage and remove negative feedback for a recurring…
Three vague one-star reviews appeared on my Google listing within a single week, each with a single sentence and no substance. Days later, a message came through offering to protect and repair my online reputation for a monthly…
A single vague one-star review appeared on RateMDs, saying only that the experience was terrible, with no detail at all. Almost immediately, a direct message followed from an agency offering to bury negative reviews for a monthly fee. The…
A one-star review appeared, and alongside it came a message stating that unless I released a full copy of records and issued a refund, more one-star reviews would follow. The message was explicit that my rating would be destroyed if I did…
A public post on X tagged my practice and warned that unless I provided free follow-up work and released records, a campaign of one-star reviews would begin. The post was visible to anyone and framed as a countdown, pay or I destroy your…