How We Collect and Check Information
This page explains how a doctor comes to be listed on this site, and what we will and will not print. It is here so you can judge for yourself how much to trust what you read.
Where the information comes from
Every listing begins with something the institution published about its own people: a hospital’s consultant list, a diagnostic centre’s own directory, a medical college’s faculty page.
We do not copy other doctor directories. It would be faster, and it is what most sites do. We do not do it for two reasons. It is their work. And they contradict each other, because they have been copying each other for years, so their mistakes travel. In this subject a mistake is not a broken page. It is somebody unwell travelling to a chamber that is not there.
What we print, and what we leave blank
We print what the source publishes: the doctor’s name, their qualifications as written, their department, where they work, the chamber, and the chamber’s own number.
Where a source publishes nothing, we print nothing and say so on the page. Many listings have no BMDC registration number and no visiting hours. That is not an oversight. No chamber in Bangladesh publishes registration numbers on its own website, and many publish no hours either. An honest blank is worth more than a confident guess.
We never invent a fact about a named doctor. Not a number, not an hour, not a qualification.
Where sources disagree
They do, often. A doctor may be titled “Associate Professor” in one line of their own chamber’s listing and “Assistant Professor” in the next. When that happens we print the source’s full published text so you can see both, rather than quietly choosing one and hiding the other.
Conditions listed against a doctor
Where a page says “what a cardiologist treats”, that is a description of the department, not a claim about the individual. We are saying what cardiology deals with. We are not saying that this particular doctor has performed a particular operation, because we have no way to know that.
The order they appear in
Academic or hospital rank first, then postgraduate qualifications, then years of practice. All of it checkable.
No stars, no scores, no “top rated”. We have no patient surveys and no basis for a rating, so we do not print one. Nobody can pay to appear higher, because nobody pays us anything.
How old the information is
Every doctor’s page carries the date it was last checked. Chambers move and hours change, so treat anything as needing a phone call before you travel.
Corrections
If something here is wrong, tell us and we will change it. Doctors who want their own listing corrected or removed can ask, without giving a reason.