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.
License check
US clinicians are verified live against the national NPI registry: name match, active status, and an allowed specialty. International clinicians submit their license number, issuing body, and a copy of the license.
Eligibility rules
Only licensed physicians, nurse practitioners, physician assistants, and equivalent clinicians are eligible. Chiropractors, naturopaths, and unlicensed practitioners are never listed.
Attestation
Each clinician answers a short, versioned questionnaire for every condition they list and signs a dated attestation that they follow the current society guidelines. We then take up to three business days to check that what they told us matches their license, their record, and how they actually practice. Attestations renew every year.
No compounding and no supplement selling
Every applicant signs a dated pledge: “I do not sell, prescribe for profit, or promote peptides, compounded medications, supplements as treatment, or unregulated substances.” That covers unproven supplements sold with medical claims nobody has substantiated. We check the clinician’s website and public pages before listing them and again every month. A false pledge means removal without a refund.
Screening of public presence
During a 3 business day review we look at the applicant's website and public posts for red flags like supplement sales, compounded drugs, or anti-guideline messaging. A person makes every final decision. Approved clinicians are re-screened on a schedule.
Spot audits and reporting
A random sample of clinicians is audited every month. Anyone can report a profile from the page itself, and every report is reviewed.
Board, court, and public-record search
We search every state medical board database, Federal Trade Commission filings, court records, and the clinician's public and social media accounts. We are looking for four things:
- Messages that go against the science, such as telling people that vaccines, statins, or other proven treatments are dangerous.
- A license that has been suspended, revoked, put on probation, or sanctioned by any board.
- Hospital privileges that were withdrawn, surrendered, or denied.
- Public posts or comments that are unprofessional, are not supported by evidence, could lead a patient to harm, or contradict the current guidelines.
Who can be listed, and who cannot
These are hard rules, not preferences. Every applicant must attest to guideline-based care; we then spend up to three business days confirming the license, the record, and the attestation before anyone appears. 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.
What a listing does and does not mean
A listing means the clinician passed the checks above and attests to practicing guideline-based care. It is not an endorsement, a ranking, or a guarantee of outcomes. Attestations are self-reported and spot audited. 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.