How a Hakim guide is made.
Trust is not decoration. It is a process. Here is ours — from the moment a reader asks a question to the moment we publish an answer we'd stake our reputation on.
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How an article begins
Every guide starts from a real reader question — pulled from search, from the Hakim companion, or from a gap our editors have noticed in the current library. We don't publish topics because they trend. We publish topics because a thoughtful person actually needs them.
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How the first draft is written
A staff editor drafts the guide from primary sources — clinical guidelines, systematic reviews, landmark trials, respected textbooks. Every factual claim is labelled by evidence strength (Strong · Moderate · Emerging · Traditional) before the draft leaves the desk.
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How Persian tradition is evaluated
Persian medicine (Tebb-e Sonnati) is treated as a coherent centuries-old system, not folklore. We cross-check classical Persian texts against contemporary scholarly translations, and we present the traditional view alongside — never hidden inside — the modern one.
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How evidence is reviewed
A scientific reviewer independently verifies every reference, evidence-strength label, and safety statement. If a claim can't honestly wear one of our four evidence labels, it doesn't appear on the page.
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How safety is handled
Every guide carries explicit safety guidance — medications, pregnancy, chronic conditions, red-flag symptoms. We would rather over-flag a caution than let a reader miss one.
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How corrections happen
When someone flags an inaccuracy, a broken link, a stale reference, or a missing safety note, we fix it quickly, log the change in the article's version history, and thank the person who reported it.
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How updates are scheduled
Every cornerstone guide is reviewed at least once every twelve months. When a major clinical guideline, systematic review, randomised trial, safety alert, or regulatory change lands on a topic, we prioritise that guide immediately.
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How the library grows
We add guides only when the resulting article would genuinely become one of the best on the internet for that question. Depth over volume — one trustworthy guide is worth ten shallow ones.
Read the full editorial checklist on our editorial standards page, or report anything you see that needs fixing at /corrections.