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I wrote a negative Yelp review and it made my life a nightmare

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Re: I wrote a negative Yelp review and it made my life a nightmare

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Post by jessaustin »

deaddodo wrote: post #206
pliftkl wrote: post #139

A better headline might read "I wrote a review on Yelp in which I accused a doctor of committing insurance fraud on other patients that I had no actual knowledge of, and it made my life a nightmare". Courts have established that you can write negative reviews and that they fall well within rights to freedom of speech. She isn't being sued for giving the guy a one-star review and saying "This place sucks". There's one…

It also seems like this is a go-to tactic of hers. If you check here: https://www.yellowpages.com/user/503859115/reviews 2014 review by one "Michelle L" of New York, NY. Starts with the exact same byline: "Very poor and crooked business practice.". Completely different practice. One with great reviews, for the most part.

Wow how did you find that?

Re: I wrote a negative Yelp review and it made my life a nightmare

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Post by conanbatt »

iron0013 wrote: post #170
conanbatt wrote: post #152

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You cant veil an accusation under a single adjective, come on.. It might happen to many others, but her accusation is baseless and she is responsible for it. Suing for libel is an appropriate right.

How is it baseless?

She has no evidence whatsoever that this happened to someone else.

Re: I wrote a negative Yelp review and it made my life a nightmare

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Post by zoltaan »

shanecleveland wrote: post #99

I had a terrible experience with a vacation rental, so I left a brutally honest review. Was aggressively met with verbal lawsuit threats. I ended up talking with the owner quite a bit about how disappointing of an experience it was for us. I agreed to remove the original review in replace of a less "colorful" one. He at least said he understood some points and agreed to make some changes. But I got the feeling it was…

"the doctors bigger concern may be insurance fraud" Less serious but immediate is the bad publicity of the fact that they aggressively sue unsatisfied patients. I may think twice going to such a person instead of other alternatives.

Re: I wrote a negative Yelp review and it made my life a nightmare

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Post by Camillo »

alexbanks wrote: post #191
Nadya wrote: post #34

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>Wow. That violates HIPAA law. The counter-sue is going to be huge. Basically an open and shut case too. Assuming they were smart enough to "correct" the mistake it may not be a Tier 4 ($50,000+) violation, but instead a Tier 3 violation ($10,000 - $50,000 per violation) of willful neglect. I'm not sure if each violation above would be considered a single large violation or multiple small violations ( 1 violation vs…

You seem like you know what you're talking about. A few years ago, I got a Facebook message from a girl that lived in my town. She said something like "This is really weird, but did you have shoulder surgery by X doctor last October? If so, that surgeon just did my knee and after my rehab told me that she thought you and I would be a good match. Would you want to grab dinner sometime?" I was really confused. Wasn't t…

Loneliness is a serious health risk, rivaling smoking or obesity. Perhaps your doctor was simply prescribing treatment.

Re: I wrote a negative Yelp review and it made my life a nightmare

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Post by mnm1 »

hackerman12345 wrote: post #107
mnm1 wrote: post #96

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Half or almost half of the population here would let you die of curable sickness or disease just to save a couple bucks (for what purpose, I'm not sure, probably to kill more Arabs or line rich people's pockets). When you understand the underlying hate in America, all the things you list above become obvious as to why they exist. But look on the bright side: if you're lucky enough you can be here profiting off of all…

How can you claim to understand them when you're posting their oppositions propaganda instead of their own arguments? That's like starting a conversation by referring to a pro-choicer as a pro-death... even if you have great arguments against the choice of abortion it's not going to lead to a productive conversation. As a sibling poster to you said, the ridiculous pricing is part of a game between insurers and care p…

Obviously throwing money at insurers isn't the solution. We've been doing that for decades. Other countries have already figured out how to provide healthcare for their citizens. America can too if people stop opposing it. Instead, we have movement in the other direction because a lot of people hate others so much they do not want them to have healthcare. That viewpoint is inexcusable in my opinion. Also, your first paragraph in unintelligible to me.

Re: I wrote a negative Yelp review and it made my life a nightmare

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Post by danso »

jessaustin wrote: post #211
deaddodo wrote: post #206

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It also seems like this is a go-to tactic of hers. If you check here: https://www.yellowpages.com/user/503859115/reviews 2014 review by one "Michelle L" of New York, NY. Starts with the exact same byline: "Very poor and crooked business practice.". Completely different practice. One with great reviews, for the most part.

Wow how did you find that?

You can google for the exact phrase, "Very poor and crooked business practice", which is attributed to her review of the doctor.

Re: I wrote a negative Yelp review and it made my life a nightmare

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Post by jessaustin »

danso wrote: post #216
jessaustin wrote: post #211

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Wow how did you find that?

You can google for the exact phrase, "Very poor and crooked business practice", which is attributed to her review of the doctor.

If it's that simple, how do we know that she, rather than e.g. someone at the gynecologist's office, wrote this review?

Re: I wrote a negative Yelp review and it made my life a nightmare

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Post by liveoneggs »

Clubber wrote: post #172
liveoneggs wrote: post #171

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you have a HDHP?

I keep it around $2000 to $3000, so it's not high for me. We go to the doctor about once or twice a year for random stuff, so it doesn't make financial sense to have a zero to low deductible. I want to protect from the hospital bills from something major though, like a car wreck. I'm not sure that those $50 copay per doctor visit right from the start are even available anymore. That's the insurance I had when I was a…

if you have the legally-defined type of HDHP that could explain your bills because in HDHP-world you pay everything up-front until you reach your out-of-pocket yearly deductible (hopefully offset by using the HSA's tax savings; my job offers matching on HSA contributions that offset the premium cost entirely)

I pay (a lot) extra for a traditional PPO and get the old-fashioned $20/$50/$75 deductible.

Re: I wrote a negative Yelp review and it made my life a nightmare

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Post by deaddodo »

jessaustin wrote: post #217
danso wrote: post #216

Earlier quoted context omitted.

You can google for the exact phrase, "Very poor and crooked business practice", which is attributed to her review of the doctor.

If it's that simple, how do we know that she, rather than e.g. someone at the gynecologist's office, wrote this review?

Because it's not a word-for-word reposting. The details are different between the two. And she plastered it on multiple sites, similar to the claim regarding Dr Yoon's review.

I'm not saying it was or wasn't the doctor posting it. Just pointing out that if it was her who posted the dental review, she seems to have a similar story happen to her frequently. Which is suspect.

Re: I wrote a negative Yelp review and it made my life a nightmare

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Post by jessaustin »

deaddodo wrote: post #219
jessaustin wrote: post #217

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If it's that simple, how do we know that she, rather than e.g. someone at the gynecologist's office, wrote this review?

Because it's not a word-for-word reposting. The details are different between the two. And she plastered it on multiple sites, similar to the claim regarding Dr Yoon's review. I'm not saying it was or wasn't the doctor posting it. Just pointing out that if it was her who posted the dental review, she seems to have a similar story happen to her frequently. Which is suspect.

Yes that makes sense. It's probably not important for us to know "the truth" at this time. This seems like the sort of thing that our courts can sort out.
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