Listen to the patients. Theymay actually be pretty good judges of doctors and hospitals.

A new study finds that, contrary to conventional wisdom, themarks a patient gives a hospital likely correspond to the actualquality of the hospital.

The study, conducted by a team of Harvard researchers, looked atthe star ratings that hospitals are given based on the responsespatients give to a 27-question survey about their experience in thefacility.

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