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How 'Top Doctors' are chosen
Photo credit: AP Photo/Eric Gay | Dr. Kathryn Wagner, a breast cancer surgeon, poses for a photo at her offices, Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2010, in San Antonio. Wagner and other doctors are rebelling over a 25 percent cut in Medicare fees that goes into effect Dec. 1 _ unless the lame duck Congress staves it off. Wagner will stop taking new Medicare patients if the cut goes through. Wagner has posted a warning in her waiting room about a different sort of risk to patients' health. The sign says she'll stop taking new Medicare cases if Congress allows looming cuts in doctors' pay to go through. (AP Photo/Eric Gay)
Is there a doctor in the house? Plenty of them. And good ones, too. This new Newsday site helps Long Island consumers choose physicians in a variety of medical specialties.
Click here to see the Top Doctors
There are 800 MDs in Nassau and Suffolk identified as top doctors by Castle Connolly Medical Ltd., a Manhattan publisher of consumer guides to doctors across the country. Consumers...
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