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Medical review board

Every medical page on this site is reviewed by a named, registered healthcare professional before it is published — and you can check their registration yourself.

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Our reviewer

Author credentials are being published. This site is written and reviewed by a pharmacist registered with a State Pharmacy Council in India. Their full name, qualification and registration number will appear here so any reader can verify them independently.

What the review actually covers

“Medically reviewed” is a phrase that gets used loosely online, so here is precisely what it means on this site. Before a page is published, the reviewing pharmacist checks that:

  • every medical statement is supported by the source cited next to it, and the source actually says what we claim it says;
  • the sources used are current — a superseded guideline or a withdrawn label is treated as an error;
  • nothing on the page reads as individual medical advice, a diagnosis, or a dosing instruction;
  • safety-critical information is present and prominent — in particular, the circumstances in which a reader should stop reading and seek care;
  • the plain-language rewriting has not distorted the underlying clinical meaning, which is the most common way health content goes wrong;
  • risks, side effects and uncertainty are stated honestly rather than softened.

Verifying the registration

Pharmacists practising in India are registered with a State Pharmacy Council under the Pharmacy Act, 1948. Registration details are matters of public record, and we publish our reviewer's registration number specifically so that you can confirm it with the relevant council rather than trusting a claim on a website.

If you cannot verify something we have published about our own credentials, we would consider that a serious problem — please tell us at editorial@pocketsinfo.com.

The limits of our expertise

We think it is more useful to be clear about what our reviewer is not. A pharmacist's training is deepest in medicines — pharmacology, interactions, adverse effects, formulation and safe use. It is not a substitute for a specialist physician on questions of diagnosis, surgical management or the treatment of an individual patient.

Where a topic falls outside that expertise, we stay closer to the source material, keep the page descriptive rather than interpretive, and say plainly that the question belongs with a doctor. We would rather publish a narrower page than an overconfident one.

Expanding the board

We intend to add reviewers with complementary clinical backgrounds as the library grows. Any reviewer added here will be named, their qualification and registration published, and the pages they have reviewed attributed to them. We will not use anonymous “medical team” bylines.

If you are a registered healthcare professional interested in reviewing for PocketsInfo, write to editorial@pocketsinfo.com.

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