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Our method

How we vet every clinician

We do not use patient reviews or star ratings. They are easy to manipulate and say little about whether care follows the evidence. Instead, every listing rests on checks you can see and dates you can read.

  1. License verified live

    US clinicians are checked live against the national NPI registry: name match, active status, and an eligible specialty. International clinicians submit their license number, issuing body, and a copy of the license. Only licensed physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and equivalent clinicians qualify. Chiropractors, naturopaths, and unlicensed practitioners are never listed.

  2. Board certification confirmed

    We confirm the board certifications a clinician lists before they appear on the profile.

  3. Every state medical board searched

    We search the medical board records of every state, not only the one where the clinician practices. We look for:

    • A license that has been suspended, revoked, surrendered, put on probation, or restricted.
    • Any board discipline, consent order, or sanction.
    • Hospital privileges that were withdrawn, surrendered, or denied.

  4. Court records and FTC filings

    We search court records and Federal Trade Commission filings for criminal charges, fraud, and actions or warning letters over false or deceptive advertising, along with state cease-and-desist letters and news reports of professional misconduct.

  5. Website, social media, and public posts

    We read the clinician's practice website, social media accounts, and public statements, with AI-assisted research across the wider web. We are looking for:

    • Messages that go against the science, such as telling people that vaccines, statins, or other proven treatments are dangerous.
    • Sales of peptides, compounded medications, supplements sold as treatment, or unregulated substances.
    • Public posts or comments that are unprofessional, are not supported by evidence, could lead a patient to harm, or contradict the current guidelines.

  6. A physician makes the final call

    Our medical team reviews every finding over up to three business days. No listing goes live, and no listing is declined, on software alone. Paying never changes the outcome.

  7. Checked again after listing

    Listed clinicians are rescreened on a schedule, and their websites are rechecked every month. A random sample is audited every month. Anyone can report a profile from the page itself, and every report is reviewed. A failed check means removal without a refund.

  8. A signed commitment

    Clinicians also sign a short, dated statement that they follow the current society guidelines for each condition they list and do not sell peptides, compounded medications, or supplements as treatment. It renews every year. On its own it proves nothing; it is a promise we hold them to, and the checks above are the proof.

Who can be listed, and who cannot

These are hard rules, not preferences. Before anyone appears, we spend up to three business days checking the license, board certification, every state medical board, court and FTC records, and the clinician’s own website and public posts. A listing is declined or removed when any rule fails, and payment never changes the outcome.

Every listed clinician's website and public pages are re-checked monthly. If peptides, supplements sold as treatment, or compounded medications reappear, the listing is deactivated and delisted immediately, the subscription ends, and no refund is issued.

Every listed clinician must

  • Hold an active, unrestricted medical or clinical license, verified against the national registry.
  • Have never had a license revoked, suspended, surrendered, or restricted for cause in any state or country.
  • Practice according to the current major society guidelines and can name the guideline they follow.

We do not list anyone with

  • Anti-vaccine content, or publishing or promoting anything that contradicts the scientific evidence or the guidelines.
  • Selling, prescribing for profit, or promoting peptides, compounded medications, or unregulated substances.
  • Supplements sold as treatment, or an online store selling treatments.
  • Loss, suspension, or surrender of a medical license, or license restrictions for cause.
  • Documented ethical violations, including news reports of professional misconduct or board discipline.
  • Criminal charges or convictions reported publicly, for example DUI, drug, weapons, or fraud cases.
  • Public statements against vaccines or against the major society guidelines.
  • FTC or state cease-and-desist letters, warning letters, or actions for false or deceptive advertising.
  • Chiropractic, naturopathic, or unlicensed practice.
  • Promoting Ayurvedic medicine, traditional Chinese medicine, homeopathy, or energy healing as treatment for disease.
  • Public messaging against Western medicine, evidence-based medicine, or the guidelines as a whole.
  • Longevity or anti-aging clinics, IV vitamin or infusion services, and med spas are reviewed by hand. They are listed only when the care is evidence-based.
  • Energy healing, vitamin or mineral infusions, chelation therapy, or bloodletting offered as treatment.
  • Cholesterol denial: claiming cholesterol or LDL does not cause heart disease, that LDL does not matter, that only small dense or oxidized LDL particles matter, or that large fluffy LDL is fine.
  • Practicing or advertising as a naturopath, homeopath, or functional medicine practitioner.
  • Telling patients that saturated fat such as butter, cheese, tallow, lard, bacon, or coconut oil is healthy, or that seed oils and vegetable oils are harmful.
  • Promoting keto or carnivore diets.
  • Speaking against Western medicine or against medications in general.
  • Telling patients that sun exposure is good for them and does not cause cancer, that mammograms cause cancer, or that they should not treat a cancer.
  • Running or working in a med spa that sells IV vitamin or mineral infusions, oxygen bars or oxygen therapy, red light masks or beds, saunas, or cold plunges as treatment.
  • Offering PRP, stem cell, or exosome injections.

What a listing does and does not mean

A listing means the clinician passed every check above. It is not an endorsement, a ranking, or a guarantee of outcomes. Listings are paid subscriptions; payment never changes who passes review or how organic results are ordered.

Methodology reviewed by Dr. Mohammed Alo, DO, FACC. Read our editorial policy and attestation policy.