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Doctors Sue Patients for Online Complaints

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the where-is-my-internet-malpractice-insurance dept.

Carl Bialik writes "'Several Web sites have sprung up that encourage patients to post anonymous reviews of doctors and dentists. Some frustrated patients have even created entire Web sites to criticize specific physicians. The Wall Street Journal Online is reporting that some doctors are, in turn, defending their reputation by suing the online critics."

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  1. Re:IMANAL.. well.. not really.. by philbert26 · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Well, IANAL, but doesn't this somehow interfere with getting out the Truth(tm) and that whole Free Speach(tm) thing that everyone is always getting worked up about? I realize that this may be hurting their business, but if they suck so much that people feel the need to complain, don't they have the right to complain?

    Free speech does not give the right to libel. It never has, and that has not changed with advent of the Internet.