Editorial policy
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Dakatra Misr's guides help with a practical decision: which specialist to see, what a consultation costs, what to expect from a procedure. Because the decision is about your health, every guide follows the rules below, and each one says at the top who wrote it and when it was last updated.
Sources
Medical information rests on sources a reader can check, listed at the end of each guide:
- Egypt's Ministry of Health and Population and other government health bodies
- The World Health Organization
- Specialist medical societies and their published guidelines
- Research published in peer-reviewed journals
Forums, social media posts and clinic advertising are never a source for a medical claim.
Numbers from the directory
Consultation fees and doctor counts in the guides are calculated from the directory's own data and update with it. Fees are shown as a range (lower to upper quartile) with the median and the number of doctors behind it, and no range is published from fewer than 20 doctors. The fees are those doctors list on booking platforms, and each figure says so.
How we write
Every guide starts from a real question people in Egypt search for, and answers it in the first paragraph. The editorial team checks every figure in a guide before it is published.
We write plainly, explain medical terms when we need them, and separate what is established from what is merely common practice in clinics.
Independence
No doctor, clinic or company pays to be mentioned or recommended in a guide. The doctors a guide shows come from the directory's own ordering, as described in how we rank doctors. Ads on the site, whether from Google AdSense or from any doctor who books an ad space in future, are marked "Ad" and kept apart from the guide itself. Advertisers do not see guides before publication and have no say in them.
Updates
Fee guides are reviewed every three months and all other guides at least once a year, or sooner when medical guidance or a government service changes. The date of the last update appears at the top of every guide.
Corrections
If you find a mistake in a guide, write to [email protected] with a link to it. We look at every report, fix the mistake and update the guide's date.
What the guides are not
The guides are general information to help you choose. They do not replace a consultation with a doctor who examines you and knows your history. In an emergency, call an ambulance on 123 or go to the nearest emergency department.