Source: Jamie Smith Hopkins, Baltimore Sun ( Free Registration )

Turn the tables on your doctors: Do a checkup on them before they conduct one on you.

Armed with an Internet connection, you can make sure the medical professionals you’re seeing - or considering - are licensed, find out if they have board certification in their specialties, see quality ratings for the hospitals where they practice, get feedback from their patients and weigh in with your own opinions.

It’s the wired-age version of asking everyone you know for recommendations.

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