New York "Best Doctors" issue is on newsstands today.
For the full list of physicians and ranking methodology, visit nymag.com/bestdoctors.
The Top 1,144 Physicians
The Republicans are still trying to dismantle the 2010 national health-care-reform act, and our own recent upstate congressional race was seen as a referendum on Medicare. But amid the ongoing political debate, there is one point of common ground: When you’re sick, you want the best possible care. Our fourteenth annual Best Doctors issue is meant to provide exactly that. With 1,144 names in 63 specialties, there is a first-rate physician on the list for every medical need.
Who Picks the "Best Doctors"?
A New York City research and information company, Castle Connolly Medical Ltd., publishes an annual guidebook titled Top Doctors: New York Metro Area, which lists those whom Castle Connolly has determined to be in the top 10 percent of the region's physicians -- more than 6,000 in all. For the past 14 years, Castle Connolly has been providing New York Magazine with a shorter version of this list for the magazine's "Best Doctors" issue. Space prohibits New York from publishing the full list; this year the doctors on the list number 1,144. Castle Connolly conducts a peer-review survey. The idea is that medical professionals are best qualified to judge other medical professionals, and if one recommendation is good (think of your doctor referring you to a specialist), multiple recommendations are better. To select the doctors, the firm sends out 12,000 nomination forms to medical professionals in New York City, Westchester County, Long Island, and portions of New Jersey and Connecticut.
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