subject: Work From Home Jobs - Being a Mystery Patient [print this page] Work From Home Jobs - Being a Mystery Patient
As work-from-home jobs go, opportunities for mystery shoppers are often among the most attractive ones. Just about every business has operations that undercover shoppers could find something objective and useful to say about. The opportunities, you'll find as a mystery shopper looking for work at shops and establishments, can be quite plentiful. Establishments and restaurants, hotels, amusement parks and retail stores often advertise their mystery shopping requirements all over their forums. If there is one area that's kind of difficult to get into, that is healthcare. Almost never do you find that you can go to a hospital's website and just find them advertising for mystery patients.
Why is it that there is such a shortage of mystery shopping opportunities in healthcare? It could be the fact that hospitals just operate differently - they don't feel they need any input from secret undercover consumers. Another possible explanation is that these opportunities at hospitals are reserved for the most experienced among all mystery shoppers. They might need a mystery shopper to be properly trained in the methods involved in judging medical facilities. For whatever reason, hospitals do not present a good hunting ground for work-from-home jobs for mystery shoppers in general. But there are exceptions. Let's look at some of the best medical mystery patient websites that offer great work from home jobs evaluating hospitals.
Consider the mystery shopping establishment, Examine Your Practice from Trendsource. They will sign you up if you are over 21, are able to report well on what you have experienced and have reliable transportation. They take men and women and people from all races. You also need to know how to use a computer on your own. They'll send you out on assignments to doctors' clinic and you have to be able to ask probing questions of the doctor and report back on specific areas of your experience. Of course, you have to be a credible patient to walk into a doctor's office and hold the doctor's interest. You also need to have the patience to answer seemingly pointless questions about your doctor's visit once you get back. This isn't the only mystery healthcare shopper website either. MeasureCP.com has a great model, and so do mystery shopping networks like Shoppers Confidential and BestMark. As work from home jobs go, selling your opinion about a doctor's visit has rank right up there.
