Poll of the Week - Public Data Dispute

Sep 20, 2011

How much of your track record as a physician should the public have access to?

The Public Use Data File is designed to provide data for statistical analysis only and does not contain physician’s names and addresses. But after a journalist used it to help him identify a physician by name, the file was removed from the Web.

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