(DrScore.com: Winston-Salem, NC) -- Patients’ interest in directing their own health care, combined with increasing comfort using online sources to seek and share information, are reasons why the physician-rating website DrScore.com has experienced a dramatic increase in traffic and physician ratings during the past year, according to the company. Since June 2009, more than 73,000 physician ratings have been posted—nearly double the number during the previous 12-month period.

The DrScore site, which currently has a cumulative total of more than 160,000 physician ratings, is a scientifically validated source used by patients to search for and rate doctors. “Internet-savvy patients have long used the web for gathering information about their health and medical conditions,” says Dr. Steve Feldman, founder of DrScore and a practicing dermatologist. “What we are finding now is that they are more comfortable going online to share information about their physicians to make sure the patient voice is heard.”

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