Editorial

Editorial policy

Black Doctors publishes condition and specialty guides written for Black patients specifically, plus the how-it-works and policy pages you are reading now. This page explains how that content gets made.

Who writes

Clinical articles are written by verified clinicians on Black Doctors, each writing in a topic they are credentialed in, and by named staff writers. Every byline uses the writer's real name and real role. We do not publish anonymous or pseudonymous clinical content.

Medical review

Every clinical article is reviewed by a named, credentialed medical reviewer before it is published. The reviewer's name and credentials appear on the article alongside the author's, and no clinical article goes live without that sign-off.

Our condition and specialty guides cite primary sources fetched at the time of writing and show the date those sources were checked. They carry a medical reviewer's name once one is appointed, and until then they say nothing about medical review, because claiming a review that has not happened would be worse than admitting it has not.

Sources

Every factual or clinical claim in an article is backed by a source, checked at the time the article is written or last updated. We link the source directly rather than asking you to take our word for it. A claim we cannot source gets cut, not softened.

Corrections

If you find an error, tell us at /contact/. We correct factual errors as soon as we can confirm them and note significant corrections on the article itself.

No sponsored editorial, no ratings

No advertiser, partner, or clinician pays for coverage, a mention, or a favorable edit in an article. Featured placement in the directory is paid and always labeled; it never appears inside an article, and editorial content never carries a star rating or a numeric score for any clinician.