How We Research, Write & Check
Our Health Content
This page explains, honestly, how content on My Medicine Advisor is made: where the information comes from, how AI and a human editor each contribute, what we can and can’t claim about review, and how we handle being wrong.
“I’d rather be honest about how this site is made than dress it up. The information is drawn from trusted sources and checked carefully — and where there are limits to that, I’d rather you know them.”— Sameer Patel | Founder & Editor, My Medicine Advisor
What We Aim For
Our approach rests on three simple commitments — to be evidence-based, clear, and independent.
Important Medical Disclaimer
All content on My Medicine Advisor is for educational and informational purposes only. It does not constitute medical advice, diagnosis, or treatment. Always consult a qualified healthcare professional about your own health. In a medical emergency, call your local emergency number immediately.
Evidence-Based
We build content from recognised, authoritative sources — health bodies like the WHO and CDC, and peer-reviewed research — and we link to them so claims can be checked, rather than leaning on secondary blogs.
Clear & Accessible
We try to explain complex medical topics in plain, readable language — without losing accuracy. The aim is content a general reader can actually understand and use.
Independent
Advertising never influences what we write or how we present it. What the evidence says comes first; commercial considerations don’t shape the content.
How a Page Comes Together
Here’s the actual process — straightforwardly, without pretending there’s a large team behind it.
Research
We gather information from primary, authoritative sources — health authorities and peer-reviewed literature
Drafting (AI-Assisted)
A first draft is produced with the help of AI tools, working from that source research
Human Editing
The editor reviews and rewrites the draft, checks claims against the sources, and removes anything unsupported
Sourcing & Dating
Citations are added and linked, and the page is dated so readers can see how current it is
Who Writes & Checks the Content
We want to be straight about this, because health sites often aren’t.
Written and edited by the editor
My Medicine Advisor is run by its founder and editor, Sameer Patel, who researches, edits, and is responsible for what’s published. He is not a medical doctor, and the site doesn’t claim otherwise. Accuracy is pursued through careful sourcing from recognised authorities, plain-language editing, clear citations, and prompt correction when something is flagged.
On medical review
We don’t currently have a panel of medical professionals reviewing every article, and we don’t want to imply one where it doesn’t exist. Where a topic is high-stakes, we lean harder on primary sources and keep the educational-only framing front and centre. We’d like to add qualified clinical reviewers over time — and where genuine review happens, we’ll name the real person and their credentials, and nothing more.
Are you a qualified clinician?
If you’re a licensed healthcare professional open to reviewing content in your specialty, we’d genuinely like to hear from you. Real review, properly credited, is something we want to build.
AI Assistance & Human Oversight
AI helps us work faster on the routine parts. It doesn’t make medical judgements, and nothing is published without a human reviewing and editing it.
🤖 How AI helps
- ✓Drafting initial summaries from primary-source research
- ✓Grammar, structure, and consistency checks on long articles
- ✓Organising topics and improving readability
- ✓Flagging possible inconsistencies for a human to check
🚫 What AI doesn’t do
- ❌Publish anything without the editor reviewing and editing it
- ❌Make medical or clinical recommendations on its own
- ❌Decide the formulas behind our calculators (those are established, published formulas)
- ❌Replace your doctor or serve as a source of personal medical advice
Sources We Rely On
We aim to build content from primary, authoritative sources rather than secondary aggregators. Among the ones we draw on most:
WHO
World Health Organization
who.int →CDC
US Centers for Disease Control
cdc.gov →NIH
National Institutes of Health
nih.gov →PubMed
National Library of Medicine
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov →AHA
American Heart Association
heart.org →ADA
American Diabetes Association
diabetes.org →MedlinePlus
NLM consumer health
medlineplus.gov →NICE
UK National Institute for Health and Care Excellence
nice.org.uk →Editorial Independence
How money and content stay separate here.
Ads Don’t Shape Content
The site is supported by advertising, served through a third-party network. Advertisers don’t get a say in what we write, and ads can’t influence how content is presented or ranked on the site.
No Pay-for-Coverage
We don’t accept payment to write about, recommend, or favour a product. There’s no sponsored content dressed up as editorial.
Clearly Labelled
Advertising is identifiable as advertising. For more on how ads work here, see our Ads & Affiliates page. We don’t currently use affiliate links.
Updates & Corrections
Medicine changes, and we get things wrong sometimes. When we do, we want to fix it openly.
Keeping Content Current
We date our pages and aim to revisit them as guidance changes or when we spot something outdated. We can’t monitor every medical body in real time, but updating content when there’s good reason to is part of the job.
Reporting an Error
If something looks wrong, please tell us — it genuinely helps. Meaningful corrections are noted and dated openly rather than quietly edited away.
Honest About How It’s Made
Primary sources, AI-assisted drafting, human editing, and corrections done openly.