The Top 100 Doctors has been carefully selected to represent those physicians who exceed all expectations.
Choosing the Top Doctors is a difficult task. With over 1,000,000 practicing doctors and physicians in the United States, competition to the best recognized as a Top 100 Doctor and/or the best hospital is a constant struggle. The moment a new medical procedure or medicine is approved by the FDA (Food and Drug Administration), or the medical boards approve a new procedure, the Doctors at the top of list could easily find themselves at the bottom. Because the list has the potential to change so frequently, we urge you to continually check this site for updates on the physician rankings and the hospital rankings. We try to be fair and complete in our analysis, however no system is perfect. Always check independent resources. In deciding who the better physician is, it would seem logical on its face to decide that a Doctor is better than his piers based purely on mortality rate. However, there are several apparent flaws in this line if thinking. To begin with, one physician may take more difficult cases than another, or perhaps one specializes in procedures on healthier patients while the other has focused his practice on more desperate cases; which are, by their very nature, substantially more difficult and far more risky. Choosing the best doctors even within the same practice is also difficult. Let’s take oncologists for example. Oncologists treat cancer patients. So when we try to evaluate which doctors are better than the other solely in the field of oncology, we need to compare oncologists who specialize in the same types of cancers as the other doctors. However, a careful analysis will also show us that not all cancers are the same. Additionally, not all patients are similarly situated. For example, an Oncologist treating a particular type of cancer in a young, otherwise