Medical Justice and doctors who use anti-review contracts to suppress patient reviews have been in the news.
The following links provide a sense of the issues at stake and why Medical Justice has garnered so much public attention:
- New York Times, “When Companies Respond to Online Criticism With Lawsuits”
- National Public Radio (NPR), “Doctors Gag Orders”
- Associated Press, “Docs seek gag orders to stop patients’ reviews”
- Angie’s List Magazine, “Company tries to stifle online reviews with patient ‘gag orders’”
- Public Knowledge, “The Doctor Will Be Right With You… After You Sign Over Your Copyright”
- MSNBC, “Docs seek to stifle patients’ rants on Web sites”
- The Wall Street Journal Online, “Doctors to Patients: Don’t Slam Us Online Without Permission”
- TrustedMD.com, “‘Medical Justice’ Patient Gag Contracts: Not Just Dumb, But Illegal”
- FoxNews, “Medical Experts Riled as Doctors Try to Censor Their Patients”
- Avvo.com, Avvo CEO debates Medical Justice CEO on CNBC
- Avvo.com, Doctors Trying To Silence Patients
News coverage of this website:
- RealSelf.com, “Would You Sign Away Your Ability to Write Online Reviews?”
- The Technology Liberation Front, “Exploiting Copyrightunities”
- Avvo Blog, “Doctored Reviews”
- MediaPost, “Doctors Warned: Eliminating Online Reviews Poses Risks”
- paidContent, “Can Doctors Use Copyright Law To Get Rid Of Negative Reviews?”
- Time Techland Blog, “Doctors Now Using Breach of Copyright to Quash Bad Online Reviews”
- Techdirt, “Why Doctors Shouldn’t Abuse Copyright Law To Stop Patient Reviews”
- Public Knowledge, “PK In the Know Podcast”
- Justia, “Medical Justice, or Doctored Reviews?”
- Bnet, “The Wrong Way to Handle Customers Who Badmouth You”
- ZeroPaid, “Doctors Use DMCA to Censor Bad Reviews”
- BNA Electronic Commerce & Law Report, “Dueling Websites Offer Competing Views of Patients’ Rights to Review Medical Care” (unfortunately, behind BNA’s paywall). BNA’s Health Law Reporter republished an extended version of the article as “Some Doctors Use Contracts in Effort To Preempt Negative Patient Online Reviews” (this may also be behind the paywall)
- Center for Democracy & Technology, “Medical Injustice”
- Electronic Frontier Foundation, “Medical Justice: Stifling Speech of Patients with a Touch of “Privacy Blackmail””
- KNTV (NBC Channel 11), “Doctor Reviews: Know Your Rights”
- KCBS (CBS Channel 5), “ConsumerWatch: Doctors Pursue Legal Remedy for Bad Reviews”
- Ars Technica, “Doctors and dentists tell patients, ‘all your review are belong to us’”
- About.com, “Manipulating Doctor Reviews – More Reason to Ignore Them”
The press release announcing the launch of this site.
[Note: we initially posted this page in 2011. A few months later, Medical Justice “retired” its form. In 2016, Congress enacted the Consumer Review Fairness Act banning anti-review contracts.]