Magazine reviews are too ambiguous. Internet reviews allow users to rate doctors anonymously so they can rate as often as they like and skew the total ratings. There is no accountability or credibility. Ratings are from total strangers. Sites that don't allow fair and balanced reviews dilute the value of the overall rating. Such sites are usually free and encourage everyone to rate any doctor simply to build up reviews to serve up ads. The ratings have little value and do not serve the patients or provide any valuable feedback to doctors.

Solution: The best way to get credible informative reviews is to ask your family, friends and trusted doctors. This can be an issue if you have a sensitive matter that you don’t want everyone to know yet you still want a trusted referral. MDcircle works the way you do by building a trusted network among your friends and your doctors not some strangers. The process is anonymous yet totally secure, credible and accountable. How does it work?

1. Join MDcircle and rate your doctors, hospitals and insurance plans. You are validated so there is little fraud possible yet your reviews are anonymous.
2. Invite your friends to join the network.
3. They join and rate their doctors, hospitals, insurance plans.
4. They invite their friends and they rate their doctors, hospitals and insurance plans.
5. The process continues creating hundreds of trusted reviews for yourself and friends.

Just by everyone inviting a few friends and each rating their doctors, you and your friends together create your own trusted network of hundreds of reviews and recommendations.

A trusted tree is created from the network. Your first level is the people you know (your family, friends and doctors). The second level is the friends and doctors of your friends and doctors... And so on. As you go down the tree, the referral count increases exponentially. The information you have at each level is a lists of doctors referred and their trust level. How popular they are among your friends and their friends. How many colleagues have referred them and your network's reviews and ratings. The farther down the tree you go, the farther away you are in the trust level since the top level is people you know directly.

The process of creating hundreds a trusted quality reviews with detailed recommendations and trust levels is easy! The quality and level of detail of the reviews in the network YOU and your FRIENDS create is reflected by the qualities of your friends and their friends.

Pascal Helou is the founder and CEO of MDcircle.com. He holds degrees in Master of Business (MBA), Bachelor of Science Electrical Engineering (BSEE). MDcircle.com is privately funded. Helou can be reached at .