Who chooses the Top Doctors?
A company called Castle Connolly Medical Ltd., which each year publishes a guide to the nation’s top one percent of medical specialists, America’s Top Doctors (eighth edition, $34.95; available in bookstores and online at castleconnolly.com, or call toll-free 800-399-DOCS), as well as various regional Top Doctors guidebooks, and is also the leading partner with national and regional magazines for “Top Doctors” feature articles. Why Castle Connolly? After a thorough review of various companies offering physician ratings, as well as of our own experiences in choosing top doctors through an in-house survey for many years, we were convinced Castle Connolly’s methods produce the best list. What are those methods? Each year, Castle Connolly sends out tens of thousands of invitation letters to physicians in private practice—randomly selected—as well as to the medical leadership of major medical centers, specialty hospitals, teaching hospitals and regional medical centers. Invited physicians c
