FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

College Station, TX – Andrew L. de Jong, MD and Ronald B. Kuppersmith MD have again been named to the “Best Doctors in America".

According to the Best Doctors website:

"The Best Doctors in America database has about 50,000 doctors in it. This represents the top 5% of specialists in the country.

Continuous peer-to-peer surveys help us identify specialists who are considered by fellow physicians to be the most skilled in their fields and most qualified for reviewing and treating complex medical conditions. The polling process is anonymous and confidential, qualitative and quantitative. It provides detailed profiles of each physician, including his or her practice, research programs and diagnostic and treatment procedures. We survey doctors in more than 400 subspecialties of medicine.

But how do we ensure reliable, impartial results? We are totally independent. Doctors do not pay to be included in the database, nor do we pay them to participate in the survey. The judgment of peers is the determining factor. And to get opinions with weight and professional credibility, we consult the very best. We contact all currently elected physicians, including many department heads at major teaching hospitals, and ask them to rate specialists outside their own facilities. Our process of peer review requires that every listed physician be re-evaluated with each new survey. With person-to-person telephone interviews and proprietary polling and balloting software, we collect up to 1.5 million evaluations annually. Only 5% of the doctors in any country are actually selected to become  Best Doctors."

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