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 We do not publish anonymous or pseudonymous clinical content.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

The standard is a named, credentialed medical reviewer on every clinical article, with the reviewer's name and credentials shown alongside the author's. We have not appointed a medical reviewer yet. Until we do, no guide here carries a reviewer's name and none implies it was reviewed, because claiming a review that has not happened would be worse than admitting it has not.

Our condition and specialty guides cite primary sources fetched at the time of writing and show the date those sources were checked.

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.