Finding a new doctor (especially if you need a specific specialty) is pretty difficult, especially if you have no recommendations to guide you. Web service Doctor Finder's searchable database of detailed patient reviews can help you find the right one.


The search engine is pretty easy to use, and even has a few more detailed options to help you out, like filtering by specialty and insurance. You can search up to 20 miles away, specify a gender, and even how much experience they have. By default, Doctor Finder sorts your results by the best reviews first, and then by number of reviews, so you can be sure one of the first few on the list is a pretty good pick (though you can read all the reviews to be sure).


The are a lot of reviews available on the site (most of which seem to be pulled from CitySearch), which is nice. They don't have reviews for all of the doctors in a given area, but it does have a pretty good number of them, and again—if you have no recommendations to go off of, this is way better than just picking one at random from your insurer's list.

Doctor Finder [via Wired]