patient feedback on physicians is relevant and valuable even though it is also uncomfortable for health care providers. This … the availability of online patient feedback on specific physicians and the vision of the modern role of patient that … information is fair to physicians – grappling with the problems of representative data, anonymous posting, practical and legal …

plausibly exogenous variation in the mix of physicians available to treat patients when they are admitted to the hospital via … rankings, sex, years of experience, and patient volume. The main finding is that when heart failure patients enter the hospital … attempts to estimate the types of physicians that improve survival. This paper aims to overcome selection bias by exploiting …

clinical quality, including physicians' credentials, their adherence to clinical guidelines, and their patients' risk … patients to higher-quality physicians … patients' physician choices. We collect physician rating and review data from Yelp, a leading online physician rating platform …

Roughly a quarter of physicians in the United States are either international medical graduates (IMGs) or foreign …-born physicians (FBPs). We propose a theoretical model where patient preferences that disfavor IMGs and FBPs may result in those … physicians offering better access to their services compared with non-IMGs/FBPs in equilibrium. We use data from two field …