National search
Yahoo! and many of the major search engines can walk you through a search for a physician. Yahoo! enables you to search for doctors by name, specialty or location. Information is provided by The Little Blue Book, a national database of physicians and offices.
The American Medical Association also offers “doctor finder” sevices.

Hospital-based search
Many hospitals offer Web-based physician referral services that allow you to locate participating physicians by the criteria you choose: office location, type of physician or insurance accepted.

Yale-New Haven Hospital Physician Referral Online.

Checking credentials
The American Board of Medical Specialties (ABMS) verifies the status of board certification of physicians of 24 member board. Go to www.certifieddoctor.org.

If looking for a specialist whose specialty is not included in the ABMS site, you can type the specialty into a search engine as the “keyword” (such as “plastic surgery”).