Doctors advised not to join review sites that rely on patient feedback

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The Singapore Medical Council (SMC) has asked doctors to refrain from joining review sites they can pay to help create content to make their profiles more visible on search engines. This comes in the wake of a group of doctors crying foul over not having the option to pull out of DoctorxDentist (DxD), a platform that carries health content, reviews and ratings of doctors.

The Singapore Medical Association (SMA) stepped in to pressure the site to delist the names.

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A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Straits Times on November 26, 2020, with the headline Doctors advised not to join review sites that rely on patient feedback. Subscribe